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Whenever I build out a new instance of Nautobot, I struggle with where to start. I try to add a Device, only to find that I need to

Robot Framework's DSL is limited in its capability to generate dynamic test cases. Fortunately, they expose their API via the `robot.api` module to generate this in a variety

Network to Code is releasing a new Nautobot App, e.g. plugin to interact with Ansible Tower and AWX using the existing Nautobot ChatOps framework! This plugin comes with

A previous post introduced Python objects. That post primarily presented creating and using data attributes on objects. The focus there was on how data attributes behave; therefore only

In managing networks, there are systems of record (SoR) that own distinct sets of information about the network, and sources of truth (SoT) from which users and network

Manipulating data with the Jinja filters, Map, Selectattr, and Select provides quick and efficient ways to create new data structures. This can simplify creating lookup dictionaries and avoids

As the title suggests, this post will use Nautobot for something other than a Network Source of Truth. This post will use Nautobot to solve one of life’s

Nautobot 1.1.0 is upon us! This release comes with a group of features that will offer time savings, and a customized experience for users. This post will introduce

Jinja2 is a popular text templating engine for Python that is also used heavily with Ansible. Many network engineers are familiar with it and with leveraging Jinja2 templates

The native data model in Nautobot will suffice for the majority of use cases. However, some deployments have additional requirements between objects based on the design of their

Have you seen or taken the 2020 NetDevOps survey? If not, don’t worry, it is held yearly from Sept 30th to Oct 31st, so you will get your

Useful documentation is an important component of Nautobot’s usability. To that point, this week’s blog will focus on how the NTC community can contribute new content to the