Diagram Plugin

[itdependsnetworks]

User Story

As Nelly the Network Engineer
I want to view my network infrastructure visually, as a diagram
So that I can get rid of my manually created visio diagrams
I will know this is done when I have a visual diagram that represents my network

Database Changes (Optional)

No

External Dependencies (Optional)

Likely need to include the external library as the diagram tool.

Other

• This is likely handled best by a plugin
• Need to consider if diagrams can be only manually generated, dynamically generated, or both
• Need to consider the output of the diagrams, is it compatible with other services?
• Libraries to consider
  • https://n2g.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  • https://diagrams.mingrammer.com/
  • https://d3js.org/

[glennmatthews]

Worth considering/investigating whether nextbox-ui-plugin (https://github.com/iDebugAll/nextbox-ui-plugin) could be ported to support Nautobot, and whether that meets this need.

[itdependsnetworks]

I do not believe the NeXt UI is supported anymore.

[jvanderaa]

Perhaps this should be moved to a discussion for further.

I have been thinking about this less formally and I would think that the diagrams package would work well with the Affinity icon set: https://github.com/ecceman/affinity

[jedelman8]

We created a Discussion Category around Plugin Development and will be moving this there!

[N0odlez]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there may be any traction on this becoming a feature/plugin?

We all hate documentation and making Visio diagrams is the bane of our lives. Wouldn't it be great to export physical and logical diagrams from Nautobot.

[jpmorigin]

Would it be possible to port this over: https://github.com/mattieserver/netbox-topology-views

[N0odlez]

This would be ideal!

[hvisage]

Busy with evaluating and this is something that came up, so is there any traction/work even if alpha for diagrams from links states in nautobot?

[FengLovesBach]

Hello, does anyone when this feature might be available? Thanks.

[htam-net]

Hello,

For sharing : https://gitlab-ce.gwdg.de/gwdg-netz/nautobot-plugins/nautobot-ui-plugin
based on : https://github.com/iDebugAll/nextbox-ui-plugin

And listed in the community-developped Apps : https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/core/en/stable/apps/nautobot-apps/