Nornir: Solve Big Problems Fast

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Nornir is a pure‑Python, agentless automation framework that runs tasks (Python functions) against an inventory; it has ~35 contributors and ~644 GitHub stars and is on v2.5 with 3.0 imminent. Examples show it integrating with existing Flask APIs to manage 2–3k devices in a week during an M&A migration and using NetBox plus NetBox plugin, Flask API, Django RQ to move from POC to production in about a month.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Nornir
2. 1:27Nornir vs Ansible
3. 3:12Alternatives and pros/cons
4. 5:41Nornir internals overview
5. 8:29Inventory and tasks basics
6. 10:34Configuration and initialization
7. 13:01Filtering inventory
8. 14:45Running tasks and results
9. 16:53Recap of core concepts
10. 18:39Use case examples
11. 21:47NetBox integration example
12. 23:13How to learn more
13. 23:54Nornir 3.0 changes
14. 24:35Summary and closing

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