Installing Nautobot Dependencies on Ubuntu¶

This installation guide assumes that you are running Ubuntu version 20.04 on your system.

Install System Packages¶

Install the prerequisite system libraries and utilities.

This will install:

• Git
• Python 3
• Pip
• PostgreSQL database server and client
• Redis server and client

$ sudo apt update -y
$ sudo apt install -y git python3 python3-pip python3-venv python3-dev postgresql redis-server

Database Setup¶

In this step you'll create a database and database user for use by Nautobot and verify your connection to the database.

Create a Database¶

At a minimum, we need to create a database for Nautobot and assign it a username and password for authentication. This is done with the following commands.

$ sudo -u postgres psql
psql (12.5 (Ubuntu 12.5-0ubuntu0.20.04.1))
Type "help" for help.

postgres=# CREATE DATABASE nautobot;
CREATE DATABASE
postgres=# CREATE USER nautobot WITH PASSWORD 'insecure_password';
CREATE ROLE
postgres=# GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE nautobot TO nautobot;
GRANT
postgres=# \q

Verify Service Status¶

You can verify that authentication works issuing the following command and providing the configured password. (Replace localhost with your database server if using a remote database.)

If successful, you will enter a nautobot prompt. Type \conninfo to confirm your connection, or type \q to exit.

$ psql --username nautobot --password --host localhost nautobot
Password for user nautobot:
psql (12.5 (Ubuntu 12.5-0ubuntu0.20.04.1))
SSL connection (protocol: TLSv1.3, cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits: 256, compression: off)
Type "help" for help.

nautobot=> \conninfo
You are connected to database "nautobot" as user "nautobot" on host "localhost" (address "127.0.0.1") at port "5432".
SSL connection (protocol: TLSv1.3, cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits: 256, compression: off)
nautobot=> \q

Redis Setup¶

Since Redis was already installed, let's just verify that it's working using redis-cli:

$ redis-cli ping
PONG

Deploy Nautobot¶

Now that Nautobot dependencies are installed and configured, you're ready to Install Nautobot!