MaaS2Netbox

MaaS2Netbox is a project which aims to update an existing NetBox database of a Node inventory with information gathered by MaaS for the same set of Nodes.

Requirements

In order to run MaaS2Netbox scripts the following requirements must be met:

1. API read access to desired MaaS deployment
2. API read access to desired NetBox deployment
3. (optional) API write access to desired NetBox deployment in order to update the information stored in NetBox

Docker

cd docker
docker build -t maas2netbox .
cp env.list.sampleenv.list
# Edit docker/env.list with values of your choice

# Run maas2netbox with --help option to display all available options
docker run --env-file env.list maas2netbox maas2netbox --help

Virtualenv

# Create Virtual Environment and install maas2netbox
virtualenv .venv -p python3
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install git+git://github.com/grnet/maas2netbox.git@master

# Export environment variables to configure maas2netbox
export MAAS_URL=https://maas.url
export MAAS_API_KEY='123AB:CDEF:1234'
export NETBOX_URL='https://netbox.url'
export NETBOX_TOKEN='0123456789ABCDEF'
export NETBOX_DEVICE_IDS=123,456
export SITE=dc_name

# Run maas2netbox with --help option to display all available options
maas2netbox --help

Configuration Options with Environment Variables

Name	Description
MAAS_URL	The Rest API url of MaaS Deployment
MAAS_API_KEY	The OATH API key for read transactions to MaaS Rest API endpoints
NETBOX_URL	The Rest API url of NetBox Deployment
NETBOX_TOKEN	The token for read/write transactions to NetBox API endpoints
NETBOX_DEVICE_IDS	A list containing all device type ids of nodes inside NetBox database
SITE	The name of the site whose machines are managed by MaaS

NOTE: All environment variables are mandatory and should be set appropriately.

Usage

Usage: maas2netbox [-h] -c COMMAND -f FIELD [--log LOG_LEVEL] [--data DATA]

Argument	Valid Options
COMMAND	validate, update, create
FIELD	serialnumber, status, primaryIPv4, interfaces, platform, switch_connections, experimental
LOG_LEVEL (optional)	CRITICAL, ERROR, WARNING, INFO, DEBUG, NOTSET
DATA (optional)	is a valid json dictionary

Jenkins Job

MaaS2Netbox is accompanied with a Jenkins Job which can be added to any Jenkins Environment. This job assumes that there is an agent named maas2netbox-worker (changes can be easily applied) with all the installation requirements met. In addition, there is a cron trigger which runs the job in a daily basis. Finally, the Jenkins Job runs all the validation scripts and it gathers the whole output from MaaS2Netbox execution.

Conventions

In order to run MaaS2Netbox scripts successfully the following conventions must be made:

1. A node object in MaaS must have the same name in NetBox (case insensitive)

Known Issues

The following issues have been recorded and they will be fixed in newer versions of MaaS2Netbox:

• In order to check cabling of a node with a network switch, all switch ports must be declared beforehand to NetBox