[hacker_newz]

In practice nothing should work without the source of truth being updated.

[zamadatix]

I think that's two ways of saying the same thing - that NetBox isn't integrated into anything which forces it into being the source of truth. It's just a place updates sometimes get sent to.

This was my main problem with NetBox as well.

[jodrellblank]

It isn't "forced" into being the source of truth, it was designed to be that from the start: https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/introduction/#serve-as-a-s...

[midasuni]

Your ansible (salt, chef, whatever) inventories should be generated from your source of truth, then when they run they should apply against your infrastructure.

You shouldn’t be able to make any changes without driving them through the source of truth.