ign8inventory 1.0.0

Spin up a NetBox inventory environment in minutes — Hetzner Cloud, Cloudflare DNS, opinionated regions/sites/locations.

ign8inventory

Provision a production-ready NetBox DCIM/IPAM instance in minutes — Hetzner Cloud VM, Cloudflare DNS, Let's Encrypt TLS, PostgreSQL, and an opinionated default layout, all from a single CLI command.

pip install ign8inventory
ign8inventory setenv   # configure credentials
ign8inventory up       # provision everything
ign8inventory bootstrap  # populate regions, sites, locations

Features

• Single command provisioning — one ign8inventory up creates the Hetzner VM, DNS record, TLS certificate, and a fully configured NetBox instance
• Idempotent — re-running any command is safe; existing resources are detected and reused
• No Terraform, no Ansible — pure Python using the official Hetzner and Cloudflare SDKs
• Database backup — ign8inventory backup exports the PostgreSQL database via SSH and commits it to your repository
• Live server seeding — ign8inventory seed queries your Hetzner projects and upserts running servers into NetBox
• Vault integration — secrets in infrastructure.yml can be stored in and resolved from HashiCorp Vault

Requirements

• Python 3.9+
• A Hetzner Cloud account and API token
• A Cloudflare account managing your domain, with a Zone DNS Edit token

Installation

pipx install ign8inventory   # recommended
# or
pip install ign8inventory

Quickstart

# 1. Configure — writes a .env file with all credentials
ign8inventory setenv

# 2. Provision — Hetzner VM + Cloudflare DNS + TLS + NetBox
ign8inventory up

# 3. Bootstrap — create regions, sites, and availability zones
ign8inventory bootstrap

# 4. Backup — export the database and commit it
ign8inventory backup

Run ign8inventory quickstart for the full step-by-step guide.

Commands

Command	Description
up	Provision Hetzner VM, Cloudflare DNS, TLS, and install NetBox
bootstrap	Populate NetBox with regions, sites, and locations
seed	Query live Hetzner projects and upsert servers into NetBox
backup	Export the PostgreSQL database via SSH, save to backup/netbox.sql, and commit
show-users	List all NetBox users
add-user	Create a new NetBox user
vault-put	Push infrastructure.yml secrets to HashiCorp Vault
setenv	Interactive credential setup — writes .env
destroy	Tear down the server and DNS records

Default layout

ign8inventory bootstrap creates:

• Regions: Europe, North America, Asia Pacific
• Sites: nbg1, fsn1, hel1 (EU) · ash1, hil1 (US) · sin1 (APAC)
• Locations: zone-a, zone-b per site

Environment variables

Variable	Description
IGN8_DOMAIN	Base domain — inventory.DOMAIN will be created
IGN8_ADMIN_EMAIL	Contact email for Let's Encrypt
IGN8_HETZNER_TOKEN	Hetzner Cloud API token
IGN8_CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN	Cloudflare API token (Zone DNS Edit)
IGN8_CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID	Cloudflare Zone ID
IGN8_NETBOX_SUPERUSER	NetBox admin username (default: admin)
IGN8_NETBOX_PASSWORD	NetBox admin password
IGN8_NETBOX_TOKEN	API token — filled in after up, used by bootstrap and seed

All variables can also be set via a .env file or passed as CLI flags.

License

MIT