go-nautobot

go-nautobot

nautobot package provides the Go Bindings to interact with Nautobot Source of Truth API, starting from Nautobot version 1.5.8. It comes with its own versioning schema, derived from Nautobot (see #release-versioning).

This package bindings are auto-generated. Every release it's triggered automatically from the Nautobot release pipeline, for every new version released. It uses oapi-codegen package, using the swagger.yaml generated by Nautobot service implementing OpenAPI 3.0.

Nautobot allows query parameter api_version to specify the major-minor version to generate the schema from.

Release Versioning

go-nautobot uses semantic versioning with a dependency on the Nautobot major-minor version used to generate the bindings.

The minor version in go-nautobot will always match the minor version from Nautobot, but the patch version will evolve independently.

For example, a fictitious release process would be:

the "*" case shows that when regenerating the bindings for the same Nautobot version, a increment on the patch release of go-nautobot occurs.

This way the project versioning will keep relationship with the original minor Nautobot version while it also enables its own release lifecycle.

How to use nautobot package

Go Get Nautobot package

Simply point your get of the nautobot package to the version you require, in the example version 1.5.0:

$ go get github.com/nautobot/go-nautobot/pkg/nautobot@v1.5.0

Go main example

This is example is also available in example/main.go:

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"

	nb "github.com/nautobot/go-nautobot/pkg/nautobot"
)

func check(err error) {
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

func main() {
	token, err := nb.NewSecurityProviderNautobotToken("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa")
	check(err)

	c, err := nb.NewClientWithResponses(
		"https://demo.nautobot.com/api/",
		nb.WithRequestEditorFn(token.Intercept),
	)
	check(err)

	ctx := context.Background()

	resp, err := c.DcimManufacturersListWithResponse(ctx, &nb.DcimManufacturersListParams{})
	check(err)

	fmt.Printf("%v", string(resp.Body))

}

Other examples

• Network Automation with Go Book

How to use while being a private repository

export GOPRIVATE=github.com/nautobot/go-nautobot

vi ~/.gitconfig
[url "ssh://git@github.com/"]
	insteadOf = https://github.com/

Local Development

Run it locally

docker-compose --project-name go_nautobot -f development/docker-compose.yml --env-file development/local_dev.env up --build --abort-on-container-exit

Hint: If you get a build fail during testing, check that you are not limiting container memory to 2GB. Upgrade to 4GB.

Trigger the build manually

The release process can be triggered manually from GitHub Actions CLI:

gh workflow run release.yml -f tag=1.3.2

TODO

• [] Notify in slack for every release or failure
• [] Add a step in Nautobot, at the end of OSRB