NetBox Community Call - May 5, 2026

NetBox 4.6, Branching 1.0, Custom Objects 0.5 + Terraform BGP & Agentic AI for NetOps

This NetBox Labs community call covers upcoming events (Red Hat Summit in Atlanta, Cisco Live US in Las Vegas, and AutoCon 5 in Munich) and encourages attendees to connect with the team at their booths. Mark shares NetBox updates including recent 4.5.x bugfix releases, performance work, and the release of NetBox 4.6 featuring VM types, cable bundles, rack groups, ETags, cursor-based API pagination, and expanded plugin author capabilities. He also highlights NetBox Branching 1.0.0 improvements aimed at eliminating unmergeable branches and previews Custom Objects 0.5.0 with branching support, polymorphic/generic foreign key fields, YAML import/export, and better search/filtering. Guest talks include Markus on declarative BGP session management using Terraform with the NetBox BGP plugin, and Alfonso (Poncho) demonstrating an agentic AI workflow using LibreChat with MCP servers (NetBox, PyATS, GitHub, Draw.io) to sync inventory and credentials, run checks, push configs with approvals, and generate compliance reports.

00:00 Agenda Overview
00:55 Housekeeping and Chat Q&A
01:54 Upcoming Events and Meetups
02:49 NetBox Updates and Performance
03:52 NetBox 4.6 Highlights
05:35 Branching 1.0 Progress
06:13 Custom Objects 0.5 Deep Dive
09:16 Community Q&A Roadmap
11:26 Guest Talk Intro and Setup
12:35 Markus Background and Freifunk
14:21 NetBox BGP Plugin Basics
16:41 Data Center BGP Scaling Problem
19:59 Why Terraform for BGP Sessions
22:51 Terraform Provider and Example Code
25:41 Benefits Caveats and Q&A
30:14 Tunnels And BGP Scale
30:46 Terraform For BGP Status
32:34 Auto Populating BGP Plugin
33:46 Spine Leaf BGP Basics
35:19 Jinja Config Generation
36:16 Agentic AI Handoff
37:10 Smart Connections Repo
39:45 MCP Stack Overview
42:43 NetBox Inventory And Secrets
46:41 LibreChat Agent Setup
49:46 Live Demos And Guardrails
53:26 Compliance Reports To GitHub
55:53 Wrap Up And Next Month

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