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This book is a guide for getting started with the modern open source network management tools. Often times using open source software for network management can be intimidating. This book is meant to help show the ease at which getting started with the tools and lessen the \"fog\" of how to get started.

This will take you through setting up on a single host that would be able to scale to a small deployment. Overall this will be something that can be replicated and with a little additional investment of time and additional resources can then be scaled out to meet your environment's needs.

Book Chapters:

Introduction and Licensing
Docker and Docker Compose
Nautobot and Source of Truth
Secrets Management: Hashicorp Vault
Metrics Gathering: Telegraf
Metrics Storage: Prometheus
Metrics Visualization: Grafana
Web Server
Open Source Network Management Summary

Book Updates

This book will have additional updates and writing on additional tools over time. The tools written about are an author's choice.

Current Version

The current version being released is a v0 release. In that this has most of the content, but there are still a few minor edits being processed yet. The technical content is at a ready state.

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