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1. Part 1: Introduction to Source of Truth and Nautobot

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Nautobot FREE CHAPTER

• Introduction to network automation
• Understanding SoT
• Nautobot overview
• Nautobot use cases
• Nautobot ecosystem
• Summary

3. Chapter 2: Nautobot Data Models

• Nautobot data models overview
• Network device inventory data models
• Tenants
• IPAM data models
• Circuits data models
• Data model extensibility
• Summary

4. Part 2: Getting Started with Nautobot

5. Chapter 3: Installing and Deploying Nautobot

• Nautobot architecture overview
• Installing Nautobot
• Loading data into Nautobot
• Summary

6. Chapter 4: Understanding the User Interface and Bootstrapping Nautobot

• Understanding the navigation and UI
• Managing inventory and bootstrapping your first installation
• Summary

7. Chapter 5: Configuring Nautobot Core Data Models

• IP address management in Nautobot
• Modeling HA and virtual devices
• Cabling and power management
• Incorporating power management with cabling
• Understanding the blast radius through comprehensive data
• Secrets management
• Using Notes, Tags, Changelog, and Filter forms
• Summary

8. Chapter 6: Using Nautobot’s Extensibility Features

• Statuses
• Tags
• Custom fields
• Computed fields
• Custom links
• Export templates
• Best practices for export templates
• Config contexts
• Config context schemas
• Git as a data source
• Relationships
• Dynamic groups
• Summary

9. Chapter 7: Managing and Administering Nautobot

• Administration with the Admin UI
• User, group, and permissions management
• Exploring Nautobot’s settings
• Setting up and using NAPALM integration
• Exploring nautobot-server CLI commands
• Exploring the Nautobot Shell
• Upgrading Nautobot
• Troubleshooting Nautobot
• Summary

10. Part 3: Network Automation with Nautobot

11. Chapter 8: Learning about Nautobot APIs – REST, GraphQL, and Webhooks

• Technical requirements
• Nautobot REST APIs
• GraphQL with Nautobot
• Webhooks
• Summary

12. Chapter 9: Understanding Nautobot Integrations for NetDevOps Pipelines

• Technical requirements
• Exploring pynautobot
• Exploring the Nautobot Ansible Collection
• Using Nornir Nautobot
• Exploring Nautobot Docker containers
• Exploring the Nautobot Go library
• Introducing the Nautobot Terraform provider
• Summary

13. Chapter 10: Embracing Infrastructure as Code with Nautobot, Git, and Ansible

• Technical requirements
• Setting up the environment
• Adding data to Nautobot with Ansible
• Setting up a dynamic inventory
• Backing up network devices
• Performing a config replace with Nautobot, NAPALM, and Ansible on Arista and Juniper devices
• Performing config changes with Nautobot and Ansible for Cisco IOS devices
• Performing config changes with Nautobot and Ansible for Cisco NX-OS devices
• Managing data with config contexts and using Git
• Nautobot jobs versus Ansible playbooks
• Summary

14. Chapter 11: Automating Networks with Nautobot Jobs

• Technical requirements
• Nautobot Jobs overview
• Introduction to the Django ORM
• Learning about the Nautobot Shell and ORM
• Adding Jobs to Nautobot
• Creating your first Nautobot Job
• Using Jobs to populate data in Nautobot
• Converting Python scripts into Nautobot Jobs
• Diving into even more Job features
• Summary

15. Chapter 12: Data-Driven Network Automation Architecture

• Data-driven network automation architecture
• Evolution of managed networks
• SoT with Nautobot
• Automation and orchestration
• User interactions
• Summary

16. Part 4: Nautobot Apps

17. Chapter 13: Learning about the Nautobot App Ecosystem

• Nautobot Apps overview
• Why Nautobot Apps?
• Nautobot Apps ecosystem
• What’s possible with Nautobot Apps?
• Nautobot Apps administration
• Summary

18. Chapter 14: Intro to Nautobot App Development

• Setting up your system for Nautobot App development
• Starting a Nautobot App with Cookiecutter
• Exploring the Nautobot Developer API
• Summary

19. Chapter 15: Building Nautobot Data Models

• A real-world use case for custom Apps
• Data model design
• Building an App around existing data models
• Building an App with custom data models
• Exercises or next steps
• Summary

20. Chapter 16: Automating with Nautobot Apps

• A real-world use case for network automation in a Nautobot app
• Building an App for network automation
• Next steps on your journey
• Summary

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Appendix 1: Nautobot Architecture

• Nautobot components and services
• Database: PostgreSQL or MySQL
• In-memory data store: Redis
• In-Memory Data Store High-Availability: Redis Sentinel
• Job execution: Celery Worker(s)
• Job queues: Celery task queues
• Job scheduler: Celery Beat
• Web server: uWSGI

1. Appendix 2: Integrating Distributed Data Sources of Truth with Nautobot

• Understanding distributed data sources
• Exploring the Nautobot SSoT framework
• Building your own SSoT integration

2. Appendix 3: Performing Config Compliance and Remediation with Nautobot

• Why Golden Config
• Golden Config design
• Golden Config use cases
• Best practices and tips