How to install Netbox
NetBox is an open source web application the is design to manage a network infrastructure.
In this tutorial, we will be installing Netbox using puppet for the installation and a bash script for the basic configuration.
Prerequisites
For this turtorail, we will need:
- A puppet master node (puppet version 4.10)
- The netbox node (Debian 9 Stretch and puppet client vesion 4.8)
- The puppetlabs postgresql module
- The puppetlabs-vcsrepo module
Installation
We will not convert the installation and configuration of puppet master in this tutorial. if you do not have a puppet master server in your environment, you can do all the steps below manually by following the instructions in the reference section. Once done, you can continue with this tutorial from the configuration section.
Download modules
Login to your puppet master node and issue the command below to download the puppetlabs postgresql module
sudo puppet module install puppetlabs-postgresql --version 5.9.0
This will download the postgresql moudle and save it into
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules$
Next we will download the puppetlabs vcsrepo module using the command below
sudo puppet module install puppetlabs-vcsrepo --version 2.3.0
This will download the vcsrepo moudle and save it into
/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/modules$
Create the class
Let us create our netbox_install class that will be used to install Netbox and Posgresql.