https://uclab.dev/tags/network-automation/ Recent content in Network-Automation on DevOps von UCLAB Hugo en Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:41:10 +0000 https://uclab.dev/posts/netbox/ Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:41:10 +0000 https://uclab.dev/posts/netbox/ <p>NetBox is the source of truth for network and infrastructure documentation. If you run a homelab or a small datacenter and want to know what IP belongs where, what VLANs exist, and which rack holds which server — NetBox is the tool for the job. This post walks through deploying it on a k3s cluster using the official Helm chart, FluxCD for GitOps, and HashiCorp Vault via ExternalSecrets for secret management.</p> https://uclab.dev/posts/awx-in-practice/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:53:02 +0000 https://uclab.dev/posts/awx-in-practice/ <p>In my <a href="https://uclab.dev/posts/awx">previous post</a>, I got AWX running on k3s with a custom Execution Environment for Cisco collections. Time to actually use it for something practical: a self-service VLAN provisioning job that lets anyone on the team provision a VLAN on specific switches by filling in a form — no CLI, no SSH, no risk of typos in config mode.</p> <p>This post covers building it end to end, including the surprising number of gotchas I hit with surveys, host targeting, and variable scoping.</p>