Using Terraform for NetBox

I have used NetBox in different organisations. It’s been used as; IPAM, a documentation tool or a source or truth. All acceptable, and all work for the places they were. 

The source of truth is the best implementation. The idea is that NetBox is the source of truth for the network. It is how the state of the network devices should be. It also allows for automation tools to leverage what is configured in NetBox to configure the network devices.

The one problem that all of these methods has, is that NetBox still requires a user to input data. I have seen Python scripts used to input data, this also works, but I haven’t ever seen it able to manage everything. NetBox still requires manual intervention.

NetBox should be used as the source of truth for the network, and should be populated using Infrastructure as Code. This brings me on to Terraform for NetBox