May 2025 NetBox Community Meetup
May 2025 NetBox Community Meetup
May 13, 2025 11:00 am-12:00 pm EST / 8:00-9:00 am PST / 15:00 UTC
Join us for May’s Community Call as we have a great lineup! We are excited for all the feedback, questions, and insights we can all share together with
the community.
Why Should You Join a Monthly NetBox Meetup?
Featuring NetBox feature and version updates, demos from fellow community members, and open Q&A on challenges members are facing, the NetBox Community Meetup is a monthly opportunity to connect and learn from your peers.
Featured Guest Speakers
Let’s dive into custom validators in NetBox! In this quick talk, you’ll see how a little bit of Python (and some other fun tools) can keep your network data clean and compliant. You’ll walk away with tips on using validators to make sure your network configuration matches your business logic.
Automating network configuration updates is powerful–but risky–especially with platforms like Cisco IOS that lack native, atomic config replacement. In this session, Michael Schwartzkopff shares a practical and resilient approach to managing full-device configuration from NetBox to Cisco IOS. By leveraging NetBox for config generation, scripting secure deployments, and creatively applying the config archive feature, the solution ensures automatic rollback if connectivity is lost. This talk is ideal for engineers seeking safe, hands-off deployment techniques in brownfield Cisco environments, and demonstrates how a NetBox-centric automation stack can reduce operational risk without sacrificing control.
