Diode is the new data ingestion service for NetBox that makes it easier to integrate your data sources and get data into NetBox. Diode is available today as a public preview, and we’re working hard to ready Diode for general availability – refining Diode’s functionality by expanding Diode’s support for NetBox’s data models and improving its UX, building tools atop Diode like the Diode Agent, and learning from the community’s use cases. Diode includes multiple components, most notably the Diode server which does most of the heavy lifting of ingesting data, and the Diode plugin for NetBox, along with Python and Go SDKs. The Diode server is an important new component in a modern NetBox deployment, and we want to make it easy to operationalize and scale.
Today, deploying and running the Diode server just got easier with the new Diode Helm chart. The Diode Helm chart builds atop Diode’s Docker Compose configuration to enable Diode services to easily run in Kubernetes clusters. If you’re using Kubernetes to deploy your NetBox stack, it’s now easy to spin up Diode as part of it.
The Diode Helm chart is an important step on the path to GA for Diode, enabling production deployments of the Diode service in Kubernetes clusters and speeding the path to delivery of the Diode service as a standard part of every NetBox deployment, including in NetBox Enterprise and NetBox Cloud.
You can use the Diode Helm chart today. Check out the README for details on how to get started.