Operations grimoire/NetBox

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NetBox is the current source of truth for the network. It's available at NetBox.

Integration with Salt

Ongoing integration projects are in work to serve NetBox data as part of Salt pillar for configuration as code.

It should serve:

/etc/hosts data for Drake network machines
the same information available at pillar/nodes/nodes.sls, so we won't need to maintain that anymore

Network appliances and assimilated (e.g. machines with router role): gray
Devices for human to connect to and work from (e.g. shellserver, devserver): purple
Devices hosting services (e.g. dbserver, paas-docker): pink