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The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/
29 mentions on Hacker News by 27 people: 6 stories, 23 comments · first 2016-06-27 · latest 2026-09-10
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…Is this offering something you couldn’t get by using something like netbox[1] or Nautobot[2]? 1: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox 2: https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot
comment by SlightlyLeftPad · 2026-09-10 · in Show HN: Subnet Calc, visual subnet planning for teams -
Theres many. Here is one Discussion/issue that is currently annoying me again. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/discussions/9515 https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/20005 Netbox is full of these kinds of things.…
comment by erinnh · 2025-12-27 · in Splice a Fibre -
This would be a perfect plugin for Netbox! ( https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox )
comment by ndom91 · 2025-12-27 · in Splice a Fibre -
Look at the issue list...that is why. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues?q=is%3Aiss... Note how they want to be "NetBox functions as the source of truth for your network infrastructure." Your individual situation dictates…
comment by nyrikki · 2025-01-18 · in So you want to build your own data center -
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Netbox – Network Infrastructure Resource Modeling for Automationstory by metadat · 2025-01-18 · 0 comments
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…Netbox is fantastic and I wish I had this back in the mid 2000s when I was managing 50+ racks. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
comment by jdoss · 2025-01-17 · in So you want to build your own data center -
…Python-based NetBox from Digital Ocean can generate some diagrams from network asset database. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox > NetBox functions as the source of truth for your network infrastructure. Its job is to define and…
comment by transpute · 2024-11-05 · in Diagram as Code -
for the love of god please vote for this missing feature https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/issues/11721 and save me from having to use nautobot instead, (which might actually be better long-run, hm)
comment by gjvc · 2024-02-06 · in NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network -
"The site" is actually just their blog. The github repo at https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox is more like the real homepage and has a good presentation.
comment by jesperwe · 2024-02-06 · in NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network -
…[1], and transpiles it to the static directory. It's HTMX though, which is refreshing to see. [1] https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/tree/develop/netb...
comment by maxboone · 2024-02-06 · in NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network -
gh repo is a bit better on details, and has screenshots: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox There is a demo instance here: https://demo.netbox.dev/
comment by whalesalad · 2024-02-06 · in NetBox: a source of truth for everything on your network -
see also https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox/
comment by gjvc · 2023-09-12 · in NetBox – the source of truth for everything on your network -
…https://aolabs-netbox.streamlit.app/ You can use dummy data from demo.netbox.dev. More on Netbox: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox We'd keen for feedback, if this is useful, how we could extend it if it is, or if it sparks other…
comment by mi3law · 2023-07-16 · in Locally trained AI Agents for network device discovery -
…that does asset management, we used to use GLPI with it's warts and all, which got replace with https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
comment by _joel · 2023-07-10 · in Shelf – open-source asset management software -
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Netbox: Infrastructure resource modeling for network automationstory by walterbell · 2022-02-16 · 2 comments
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NetBox[0] is a large project that does this. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
comment by hotfixguru · 2021-12-27 · in Ask HN: Good Python projects to read for modern Python? -
Netbox is becoming the Open Source standard for this. https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
comment by tardoe · 2021-01-18 · in Ask HN: Which software do you guys use for managing devices in rack -
I'll just leave this here ... https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox
comment by cookiecaper · 2020-04-16 · in Cloudflare Dashboard and API Outage on April 15, 2020 -
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Netbox, the free and open source IPAM and DCIM solutionstory by cimnine · 2020-04-04 · 0 comments
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Use https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox to record your network information. Then you can create topology maps with dot/graphviz. https://netbox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/additional-features/... Someone has a tutorial on using graphviz…
comment by stargrazer · 2018-12-15 · in Ask HN: Best open-source tool to help create a network architecture diagram? -
…production nameserver it's ns-pdap-01.internal.tld and so on. [0] https://www.racktables.org/ [1] https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
comment by codingminds · 2018-06-15 · in Ask HN: Developers, how do you keep SSH and web URLs organized at work? -
…ports, PDU management and monitoring, and on and on and on. You end up with something like NetBox ( https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox ) or Collins ( https://tumblr.github.io/collins/ ), plus a bunch of other stuff gluing things…
comment by antoncohen · 2018-03-07 · in Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin? -
…the DCIM remains the single source of truth (we need to still get better on this part....) Links: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox https://www.ansible.com https://www.kubernetes.io That's at work. At home, I do much of the same,…
comment by majewsky · 2018-03-07 · in Ask HN: How do you document and keep tabs on your infrastructure as a sysadmin? -
manually: netbox https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox automatically: netdisco https://metacpan.org/pod/App::Netdisco
comment by stargrazer · 2017-03-05 · in Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a db for managing connected devices in a LAN? -
…that can really be used in production? An open source DCIM that's used in production: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
comment by walrus · 2016-12-16 · in Vikings – Libre-friendly data center -
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Netbox: IP address management (IPAM) and data center infra management (DCIM)story by based2 · 2016-10-30 · 1 comment
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IP address and data center infrastructure management tool from DigitalOceanstory by hitr · 2016-07-01 · 0 comments
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NetBox – DigitalOcean's IPAM and DCIM tool – open sourcedstory by yankcrime · 2016-06-27 · 4 comments
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Source: https://github.com/digitalocean/netbox
comment by SEJeff · 2016-06-27 · in Announcing Netbox (from Digital Ocean)