2025¶

Nautobot Docker Apps

Nautobot is a powerful network automation platform, and with Docker you can easily deploy Nautobot and its ecosystem of apps and plugins. In this post, I'll show you how to get started with Nautobot in Docker, explore some useful apps, and share tips for a smooth deployment.

Update (2026): Images now include Nautobot 3.x (including 3.1.0 on Docker Hub), refreshed app pins per major release, and a dedicated requirements-3.x.txt. The build source lives in bsmeding/docker_container_nautobot on GitHub.

Getting Started with Network Automation

I often get the question from Network Engineers: "How / where do I need to start with Network automation?" This blog post provides a comprehensive guide to start with network automation from beginning to expert level.

SlurpIT.io

SlurpIT.io is a network configuration management and orchestration platform designed to simplify network automation through intelligent API management, workflow automation, and configuration orchestration. It provides a unified interface for managing multi-vendor network environments.

Automatically import device-types in Nautobot

To get device-types accurate, with the interface-templates, console templates, port numbers and modules I created a drop-inn Nautobot job that can sync the desired Device Types to your nautobot instance.