Seeking Design Partners for the Arista CloudVision Integration with NetBox
Great news for NetBox users! We’re thrilled to announce our upcoming integration with Arista CloudVision, and we’re looking for design partners to help shape this integration from the ground up.
Arista CloudVision is widely deployed for network-wide workload orchestration and telemetry across enterprise and cloud-scale environments, managing Arista networks from campus deployments to large-scale data centers and AI infrastructure. Organizations using NetBox have consistently requested integration with their CloudVision-managed infrastructure. This new integration enables teams to maintain complete visibility of their Arista networks within NetBox, eliminating manual synchronization and ensuring consistency across systems.
The Challenge of Managing Network Infrastructure Documentation
Typically, NetBox serves as the authoritative source for network infrastructure documentation, while CloudVision manages network provisioning, change control, and streaming telemetry. Without integration, teams manually duplicate device inventory and address data, creating inconsistencies and operational inefficiencies that impact automation efforts and visibility.
Modern networks, whether supporting traditional enterprise workloads or next-generation AI clusters, require accurate documentation that reflects actual deployed configurations. Arista switches span multiple sites and network tiers with complex interface relationships and VLAN and VRF assignments that must be reflected in broader infrastructure documentation.
A Comprehensive Approach to Network Infrastructure Integration
Like our recently announced integrations with Cisco ACI and VMware vCenter, this CloudVision integration embraces a shared authority model. In today’s complex IT ecosystems, network infrastructure management requires specialized tools working in harmony with broader documentation systems.
The goal of NetBox CloudVision integration is effective modeling and management of CloudVision-managed infrastructure itself, rather than operational workflow or change control automation. The integration is designed to provide comprehensive synchronization of CloudVision-managed network infrastructure into NetBox, including:
- Device Inventory: Complete synchronization of Arista switches with serial numbers, models, EOS software versions, and operational status across your network deployment
- Interface Modeling: Comprehensive representation of physical Ethernet ports, link aggregates, and Layer 3 interfaces essential for network connectivity
- Network Context: Mapping of VRFs, prefixes, and IP addresses associated with interfaces, preserving the logical network structure managed by CloudVision
- VLAN Integration: Synchronization of VLAN identifiers and assignments across your switching infrastructure
This integration ensures that NetBox remains the central source of truth for network infrastructure documentation while CloudVision continues to excel at network-wide workload orchestration, change control, and streaming telemetry. CloudVision network inventory integrates with physical rack layouts and cable connections, IP addressing aligns with your global IPAM strategy, and your Arista infrastructure becomes a fully contextualized part of your complete network topology.
Call for Design Partners
This is where you come in.
The NetBox CloudVision integration has been evolving within our NetBox Labs Experimental stage, and we’re now ready to work closely with select organizations to refine and validate the integration before broader availability. As we prepare this integration for private and public previews, we’re seeking your feedback to help shape its direction and ensure it meets real-world needs.
If you operate NetBox alongside Arista CloudVision and want to influence the future of this integration from the earliest stages, we’d love to have you as a design partner. Design partners will get exclusive access to product previews, influence our roadmap, and help shape the future of this exciting new integration.
Join Us
If you’re ready to bring powerful clarity to your Arista network infrastructure — we’d love to hear from you. Sign up below to become a NetBox CloudVision design partner today. Together, we’ll ensure your network is not only documented, but seamlessly aligned with your network operations.
