Architecture Decision Records

The intention is to document deviations from a standard Model View Controller (MVC) design. And other general Application decisions.

Handling the Nornir Inventory

In order for Nornir to function, an inventory is created. There are multiple supported inventory sources that fit many needs; however there is a unique requirement that this plugin is trying to solve. The problem is specifically around the first SSoT job (Sync Devices from Network); how can we create an inventory when there is no source "yet"? Our solution to this problem is to generate a empty inventory, and then process the ip addresses from the job form to create a inventory in an on demand fashion and inject the credentials into the inventory based on the secrets group selected. This inventory does support loading in Nornir connection options extras by using the nautobot-app-nornir PLUGIN_CONFIG.

For the general application constraint for this ADR see the Credentials Section.