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Netbox is awesome and I have just started to plan some automations to use its data (I currently just use the GUI).

However, if I use it as a source of truth for what is essentially config management, it would be replacing something that's currently running on top of git and GitHub.

I'm not sure I'm willing to lose version history, easy reverts, the pull request mechanism etc for this critical data. How have you dealt with this?

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I don't see why you can't have both. AFIAK, Netbox doesn't have do any automation out of the box, you need to do that on your own. It's not going to start changing the configs on your devices. Your configs are not necessarily going to tell you how many rack units a given device is or the orientation of it in a cabinet. Being able to visualize the infrastructure and your IP space is extremely helpful.

At Network to Code, we are trying to solve for this exact problem.

https://docs.dolthub.com/use-cases/application-databse/nauto...

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