Building a Network Source of Truth: Ingesting Production Data into a Local Containerized Nautobot Stack
How I decoupled configurations using a multi-file Docker Compose architecture on WSL2 to replicate live Data Center footprints offline. Managing network inventories, IP allocations, and physical device mappings across spreadsheets is a foundational trap for configuration drift. In contemporary NetDevOps, automation frameworks depend strictly on a reliable, dynamic Source of Truth. To bridge the gap between production safe-keeping and dev-testing, I built a containerized infrastructure simulation. This guide outlines the execution framework for cloning the open-source Nautobot repository blueprint, deploying a localized cluster via decoupled Docker Compose configuration files on WSL2, and restoring a full raw SQL database backup from a production Data Center footprint (Mumbai-DC).
