From source of truth to full observability, on your own infrastructure, on your own terms. Thirteen hands-on chapters, one coherent stack.
One coherent platform, assembled layer by layer — each chapter adds a capability, and they all run together by the end. No islands, no point solutions.
Every chapter is hands-on: real commands, real output, a real lab you keep running from chapter 3 onward.
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A working, opinionated alternative to commercial NMS platforms — end to end.
The fully modernized stack: Nautobot 3.x, VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, Golden Config.
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The companion site hosts alternative chapters (swap a different secrets manager, metrics backend, or source of truth into the same architecture), the Clabernetes guide, and version updates as the tools evolve. Drop your email and I'll keep you posted.
Josh VanDeraa is Services Director at Network to Code and author of multiple books on network automation and open source network management. He writes at josh-v.com.