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A hands-on walk through NetBox 4.7.2 with an estate loaded into it rather than an empty demo. What each screen holds and what you do with it: rack elevations, cable traces, the IPAM tree, dual-stack interfaces, and the cabinet that turns out to be 90.7 per cent full of power while only 28.6 per cent full of kit. How to stand one up as a container stack and on a host from the packages, both run end to end. The order you have to fill it in, derived from which foreign keys are actually mandatory. How one install is carved into customers so another customer’s device returns 404 and an ungranted object type returns 403. Config contexts and the inheritance that makes them worth more than custom fields. Adding your own values to NetBox’s own status menus. Three ways to add the object your business runs on, including a datastore modelled with no code. How to write validation rules and validator classes so the database refuses what your house standard forbids. And the story of the 2021 fork that produced Nautobot, what it was for, and what has since converged. Plus driving the whole thing from the netbox.netbox Ansible collection, where the inventory is a query rather than a file and one module argument quietly allocates a new address every time it runs.

Part 1 of 3. Some are lying. Most never have to, because they are paid by the vendor whose product they are recommending and nobody has to tell you. The tells that say you are being sold to rather than engineered for, and what never makes it onto the shortlist.

Part 2 of 3. What actually gets built once the paperwork is signed: cloud for a business with one building, the box they will not be talked out of, the basics that were the thing you bought, and the agent on every machine that answers to somebody else’s console.

Part 3 of 3. Response times instead of outcomes, a liability cap set at the fees you already paid, and a provider whose excuses eventually arrive at you. The questions that flush it out, what a genuine one does instead, and what it takes to get rid of a bad one.

IPv6 has been finished, free and switched on by default in every operating system for the best part of twenty years. The UK’s answer was carrier-grade NAT, a law about logging, and a £5 a month charge to give you back the address you used to have. I counted every UK network in the global routing table to find out who has actually turned IPv6 on — 1,200 of them have not, and 463 of those are sitting on address space they asked for and never used.