https://www.dominic.dev/tags/source-of-truth/ Recent content in Source of Truth on dominic.dev Hugo -- 0.154.5 en-us Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:58:04 +0200 https://www.dominic.dev/talks/2021-09-28-wip-ansible-netbox/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:00:00 +0200 https://www.dominic.dev/talks/2021-09-28-wip-ansible-netbox/ <p>Tracking IPs, networks, servers, and virtual machines manually in Excel and Confluence creates an airgap that prevents seamless automation. I shared our journey to bridge this gap during my talk at the 10th Ansible Meetup in Zurich. As we pushed for wider adoption of configuration management, we realized we needed a robust source of truth inventory, leading us to migrate to Netbox for IPAM and device management. Here is a breakdown of how Netbox and Ansible integrate, how context data is structured, and why we sometimes have to bypass modules to interact directly with the API.</p>