Welcome to our monthly Nautobot community update! We’ll dive into the latest updates across the Nautobot community each month, highlighting the key milestones, releases, and noteworthy contributions. From new features and enhancements to bug fixes and events, there’s always something happening in our dynamic ecosystem. Open source is at the core of our values, empowering individuals and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and make a positive impact together. This monthly blog post is our way of celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of our Nautobot community members.

Nautobot Core

Releases – Stable

• Release v1.5.22 – 2023-06-26
  • Bugfixes and documentation updates
  • Updates to dependencies to address CVE-2023-2650 (cryptography)
    • Please be sure to update your environment as this is an indirect dependency and won’t auto-update
• Release v1.5.21 – 2023-06-12
  • Documentation updates

Releases – Development 2.0

• Release v2.0.0-beta.1 – 2023-06-06
  • Revamped CSV import and export
  • Majority of slugs removed from models in favor of natural keys or PKs
  • Significant Job functionality overhaul
  • Improvements to self-consistency
  • Many more changes here, please check out our release notes for more information

Nautobot Lab

A great way to check out Nautobot is by deploying it with the Nautobot Lab container. It’s an all-in-one Docker container that will run all of the services necessary to use Nautobot. It’s been updated to the latest version of Nautobot and the services it depends on.

• Read more: whats-new-with-nautobot-lab
• GitHub Page: GitHub – nautobot/nautobot-lab: All-in-one Docker container that allows a user to explore Nautobot in a lab environment.

Apps Ecosystem

• Nautobot ChatOps – Arista CloudVision Plugin – Release v1.3.0
  • Security Updates
• Ansible Nautobot Plugin – Release v4.4.0
  • Added support for plugins
  • Improved error handling
• Nautobot Terraform Provider – Release v0.0.1-alpha.0
  • Alpha release of the Nautobot Terraform Provider
• Nautobot Device LifeCycle – Release v1.3.0
  • Added Summary Page feature
  • Added Prometheus metrics
  • Added support for Notes on all models
• Nautobot Helm Charts – Release v2.0.3
  • Updated versions of deployed dependencies
• Nautobot Pylint – Release v0.1.0
  • Initial release
  • Read more here: Introducing pylint-nautobot
• Nornir Nautobot Plugin – Release v2.4.0
  • Added support for Mikrotik RouterOS, Ruckus Smartzone WLC and Access Point, ICX/Fastiron Nornir
  • Documentation and bug fixes

Community

• Nautobot Plugin – Device Resources
  • Released last month, this community plugin adds support for associating devices resources, things like CPU, RAM, etc. to Devices and viewing those on the Device detail view. Check it out!
• Anthony House builds a Nautobot instance from scratch with several Apps and sets it up with data for his own automation workflows: https://campusnetworkengineering.com/posts/practical-automation-series-part-4/
• Josh VanDeraa has written about developing standalone Nautobot Jobs and using secrets from HashiCorp Vault in Nautobot

Welcome to our monthly Nautobot community update! We’ll dive into the latest updates across the Nautobot community each month, highlighting the key milestones, releases, and noteworthy contributions. From new features and enhancements to bug fixes and events, there’s always something happening in our dynamic ecosystem. Open source is at the core of our values, empowering individuals and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and make a positive impact together. This monthly blog post is our way of celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of our Nautobot community members.

Nautobot Core

Releases – Stable

• Release v1.5.20
  • Documentation updates and bug fixes
• Release v1.5.19
  • Homepage performance improvements
  • Documentation updates and bug fixes
  • Updates to dependencies to address CVE-2022-2309(lxml), CVE-2023-31047(django), and CVE-2023-32309(pymdown_extensions)
• Release v1.5.18
  • Added ability to validate a Secret can be retrieved
  • Job result views performance improvement
  • Documentation updates and bug fixes
  • Updates to dependencies to address CVE-2023-30608(sqlparse)

Releases – Development 2.0

• Nautobot Alpha 3 is out with a lot of positive feedback on the data model changes. This alpha introduces the Namespace concept to IPAM and makes many robust improvements to relationships between models:
  • Namespace introduced to provide a uniqueness boundary for IPAddresses and Prefixes
  • Prefixes have concrete relationships to their parents instead of derived
  • IPAddresses have concrete relationships to their parent prefixes
  • VRF is no longer used as a uniqueness constraint for IPAddresses and Prefixes

Sandboxes

• Cutting-edge versions of our next branch have been deployed to next.demo.nautobot.com. They will be updated at least every two weeks as we get closer to our release date. Currently up for testing is our new UI, and many of the Alpha 2 improvements. Coming soon is our changes to the IPAM data models.

Apps Ecosystem

• Nautobot Plugin Firewall Models
  • Shiny new documentation website is now deployed!
  • Release v1.2.1 – Bug fixes
• nautobot-plugin-bgp-models – Release v0.7.0
  • Initial Release
• nautobot-plugin-golden-config – Release v1.4.0 and v1.4.1
  • Added Device status to ComplianceJob scope filter
  • Bug fixes and other improvements
• nautobot-plugin-ssot-infoblox – Release v0.8.0
  • Enable Import Selection and Prefix Filtering
• nautobot-plugin-ssot – Release v1.3.0 and v1.3.1, v1.3.2
  • Added support for metrics
  • Update docs on performance optimization
  • Bug fixes
• nautobot-plugin-data-validation-engine – Release v2.1.0
  • Added support for Data Compliance Rules
  • Also release recently was v2.0.0:
    • Added support for Required and Unique field validations
    • Added support for Jinja templating in Regular Expression rules
• nautobot-plugin-device-lifecycle-mgmt – Release v1.2.0
  • Bug fixes

Secrets Provider

• Secrets Providers – Release v1.4.0 is out:
  • #48 Add token as secret type choice for Delinea/Thycotic
  • #51 Add support for AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
  • #53 Add support for Hashicorp Key/Value v1 response
  • #66 Add support for Vault Enterprise Namespace parameter
• Three big patch releases the last month addressing performance with job results, relationships.
• Solid bug fixes making the soon cut over to 1.5 LTM a stable transition.

Get in touch!

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Links

• docs.nautobot.com – ICMI, we built a one-stop shop for all things Nautobot documentation!
• Nautobot GitHub Organization – Find new apps to install, our single-container lab environment, and more.