>NetBox is the leading solution for modeling and documenting modern networks. By combining the traditional disciplines of IP address management (IPAM) and datacenter infrastructure management (DCIM) with powerful APIs and extensions, NetBox provides the ideal "source of truth" to power network automation.
We use it as a front end for managing physical datacenters with a host of services that take or store their state in netbox.
Services check boot targets, hosttypes, connected switch and power ports, the service and role a host will or does provide, lifecycle tracking, etc . . .
And, we can give it to our physical datacenter techs and they just set the fields and boot the host.
It's a really nice way to manage a front end, because netbox handles things like ldap and UI and we just write services that make the datacenter look like netbox.
Hence, a source of truth. The mysterious machinations of the modern datagram hailstorm quantified and exposed.