NetBox-Driven Automation for Arista and SONiC

For our new network backbone the configuration of every switch is built from NetBox. Nobody logs in to a switch to change something by hand. This post describes how the pieces fit together. The NetBox Model We keep the model deliberately small: Devices Interfaces VRFs VLAN groups VLANs For the VXLANs we do not use L2VPN objects. A VLAN in NetBox is the L2 segment, and its VNI is derived from the object ID: ...

August 15, 2026 · 2 min · 351 words · Jan Gilla