pynetbox vs nornir_netbox

pynetbox

Python API client library for Netbox. (by digitalocean)

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nornir_netbox

NetBox plugin for Nornir (by wvandeun)

Nornir Netbox network-automation

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pynetbox		nornir_netbox
	Project
4	Mentions	1
525	Stars	64
2.7%	Growth	-
7.1	Activity	5.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	18 days ago
Python	Language	Python
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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pynetbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of pynetbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-20.

CLI for updating data in Netbox?
1 project | /r/Netbox | 5 Apr 2022

pynetbox does a lot of the hard python'ing for you. You just need to set a couple variables like the URL and token, then you can fetch items, update, and save them. WAY faster than the UI.
Starting with python at 30
2 projects | /r/Python | 20 Feb 2022

Why not write a simple Netbox report to start? https://github.com/netbox-community/pynetbox
How do you document your network architecture?
2 projects | /r/networking | 26 Oct 2021

Script out REST API calls using pynetbox
Net box API
1 project | /r/learnpython | 6 Aug 2021

Also check out the pynetbox Python client for the NetBox API.

nornir_netbox

Posts with mentions or reviews of nornir_netbox. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Trying Out Nornir. Grabbing Current Inventory Methods?
1 project | /r/networking | 6 Jan 2021

Looks like someone had done the hard work for you if you use netbox. https://github.com/wvandeun/nornir_netbox

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pynetbox and nornir_netbox you can also consider the following projects:

nextbox-ui-plugin - A topology visualization plugin for Netbox powered by NextUI Toolkit

eNMS - An enterprise-grade vendor-agnostic network automation platform.

ansible-role-netbox - Cross-platform Ansible role for deploying NetBox, a DCIM/IPAM tool, in a production environment.

netpalm - ReST based network device broker

netbox-docker - 🐳 Docker Image of NetBox

netbox-qrcode - NetBox Plugin for generate QR Codes

netbox-dnsmasq - Create dnsmasq DHCP & DNS configs using the Netbox API.

Installation - The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Public demo: https://demo.netbox.dev

Remmina - Mirror of https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina The GTK+ Remmina Remote Desktop Client

network-importer - The network importer is a tool/library to analyze and/or synchronize an existing network with a Network Source of Truth (SOT), it's designed to be idempotent and by default it's only showing the difference between the running network and the remote SOT.