Add a New User to Free Plan
To invite a new user to a NetBox Cloud Free instance, the user will need to have a valid email address, and be added as an administrator in the NetBox Labs Console.
Beginner tutorials and quickstart guides
View all tagsTo invite a new user to a NetBox Cloud Free instance, the user will need to have a valid email address, and be added as an administrator in the NetBox Labs Console.
Thanks for your interest in contributing to pynetbox! This introduction covers a few important things to know before you get started.
Diode is a data ingestion service for NetBox that greatly simplifies and enhances the process of adding and updating data in NetBox, ensuring your network source of truth is always accurate and up to date. Our guiding principle in designing Diode has been to make it as easy as possible to get data into NetBox, removing as much burden as possible from the user while shifting that effort to technology.
Setting up a Development Environment
This cheat sheet serves as a convenient reference for NetBox contributors who already somewhat familiar with using git. For a general introduction to the tooling and workflows involved, please see GitHub's guide Getting started with git.
This documentation provides example configurations for both nginx and Apache, though any HTTP server which supports WSGI should be compatible.
Migrating from an on-premises NetBox open source instance to a NetBox Labs NetBox Cloud environment is a straightforward
You should already have access to the NetBox Labs Console when you sign up for NetBox Cloud.
The NetBox Cloud Free Plan is perfect for small networks, lab environments, and targeted use cases. It includes up to 100 devices, 500 IP addresses, 10k API requests/month, and 2 operational branches.
Console Access
Learn how to enable and start using NetBox Copilot in your environment
NetBox Labs Documentation
NetBox Labs Documentation
NetBox Labs products and features can go through multiple release stages before becoming generally available. These stages in the release life cycle can present varying degrees of stability and support. The following are the NetBox Labs release stages:
This model serves as a proxy for NetBox's native ObjectChange model.
This guide outlines the steps necessary for planning a successful migration to NetBox. Although it is written under the context of a completely new installation, the general approach outlined here works just as well for adding new data to existing NetBox deployments.
Just getting started with plugins? Check out our NetBox Plugin Tutorial on GitHub! This in-depth guide will walk you through the process of creating an entire plugin from scratch. It even includes a companion demo plugin repo to ensure you can jump in at any step along the way. This will get you up and running with plugins in no time!
This section covers the mechanisms which are available to populate data in NetBox.
NetBox Labs Documentation
NetBox generally follows the Django style guide, which is itself based on PEP 8. ruff is used for linting (with certain exceptions).
Upgrading NetBox to a new version is pretty simple, however users are cautioned to always review the release notes and save a backup of their current deployment prior to beginning an upgrade.
Code Structure