Last Month in Nautobot – June 2023

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