Red Hat Summit 2025 - Data-Driven Automation with NetBox Hands on Lab
Event Overview
Data is the foundation for scalable, reliable infrastructure automation, but many organizations struggle with inventory management and data configuration as they work to fully automate their infrastructure lifecycle. On May 21st, 2025, Nick Thompson presented a session at Red Hat Summit in Boston, MA, in which he introduced NetBox, a solution for modeling and documenting modern networks as a single source of truth for network automation, built on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In this session, they explored this data-centric automation approach with live demonstrations of automating: * Device and data onboarding into the NetBox platform using Ansible Automation Platform. * Day 0 network provisioning. * Day 2 operations and configuration compliance. * Testing and validation This event provides access to the companion lab presented during the session so that attendees can get hands-on experience with the technologies and integrations demonstrated during the talk.
What to expect
- Walk away with a fully functional solution for scalable, responsive infrastructure management
- Create intelligent rulebook activations that automate configuration tasks
- Gain hands-on experience integrating source-of-truth data with automation workflows
- Set up NetBox event rules and webhooks to trigger real-time, actionable events
- Learn to build and configure data-driven automation workflows using Ansible Automation Platform and NetBox
- Configure Event-Driven Ansible to receive and process events from NetBox
Goals and Objectives
Understand Data-driven Architecture Configure Event-Driven Ansible Configure NetBox Event Rules Configure NetBox Webhooks Exposure to NetBox as Code Exposure to AAP as Code
Who should attend?
Those interested in Network Automation who attended Red Hat Summit 2025