Network Automation with Nautobot

Appendix 1

Nautobot Architecture

In Chapter 3, we learned how to install the fundamental elements of Nautobot—databases, Redis servers, Celery workers, and schedulers. In this appendix, we’ll look at how these services work, along with more advanced use cases.

Nautobot components and services

We’ll be taking a look at the following components that comprise a Nautobot installation:

• Database: This is where the “source of truth” lives. The database is where Nautobot stores all of its information about your data models and their relationships to each other.
• Redis: This is an open source in-memory database that is used for fast storage and retrieval of key/value pairs. It can be installed as a system service or as a separate container through Docker, ...