Application Stack

Nautobot is built on the Django Python Web framework and requires either a PostgreSQL or MySQL database backend. It runs as a WSGI service behind your choice of HTTP server.

Components

Function	Component
HTTP service	NGINX
WSGI service	uWSGI or Gunicorn
Application	Django Python 3.8 - 3.11 supported
Database	PostgreSQL 12+ or MySQL 8.0+
Cache	Django/Redis
Task queuing	Redis / Celery
Live device access	NAPALM and NAPALM Community Drivers.

Application Diagram

The following diagram displays how data travels through Nautobot's application stack.

Getting Started

See the installation guide for help getting Nautobot up and running quickly.

Dependency History

Added in version 1.1.0 — MySQL support

MySQL support was added.

Changed in version 1.3.0 — Python 3.6, Python 3.10

• Python 3.6 support was removed.
• Python 3.10 support was added.

Changed in version 1.6.0 — Python 3.7, Python 3.11

• Python 3.7 support was removed.
• Python 3.11 support was added.

Removed in version 2.0.0 — django-rq and django-cacheops

• django-rq support was removed.
• django-cacheops usage was removed and replaced with Django's native caching features.

Removed in version 2.1.0 — PostgreSQL <12.0

Support for versions of PostgreSQL older than 12.0 was removed.

Notices

Nautobot was initially developed as a fork of NetBox (v2.10.4), which was originally created by Jeremy Stretch at DigitalOcean and by the NetBox open source community.