Just Claim It: Simplifying Network Automation with NetBox Operator...
Talkat Cloud Native Telco Day Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 16:30· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12·
summary
Swisscom built an open‑source NetBox Operator that exposes NetBox IPs as Kubernetes claim resources so GitOps can request addresses with high‑level intent rather than static manifests. The demo shows a kind cluster, MetalLB + Carrier, and KO mappings creating a MetalLB IP address pool from a prefix claim; three /32 prefixes are deleted and recreated and the operator restores the same IPs using a restoration hash and the preserve_in_netbox flag. This enables zero‑touch MetalLB pools and sticky IP assignments via NetBox Operator.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00NetBox Operator intro
- 1:04Legacy to modern automation
- 2:08Kubernetes Resource Model
- 3:56Claim model in Kubernetes
- 6:26NetBox and its operator
- 8:15Prefix claims in NetBox
- 12:14Dynamic prefix assignment
- 15:43Restoring prefixes
- 19:22Key benefits of NetBox Operator
- 20:51Future plans for NetBox Operator
- 21:54Call to action
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