nsot 2.14.2

Network Source of Truth (IP Address Management).

NSoT

Network Source of Truth (NSoT) is a source of truth database and repository for tracking inventory and metadata of network entities to ease management and automation of network infrastructure.

NSoT is an API-first application that provides a REST API for managing IP addresses (IPAM), network devices, and network interfaces.

NSoT was originally created at Dropbox and is now maintained by Jathan McCollum.

What's New in v2.0.0

• Upgraded to Django 5.2 and Django REST Framework 3.16
• Requires Python 3.10+ (dropped Python 2.7 / 3.x < 3.10)
• Modern tooling: uv for dependency management, ruff for linting/formatting
• CI/CD via GitHub Actions with python-semantic-release

Installation

pip install nsot

Or with uv:

uv add nsot

Quick Start

# Initialize the config (~/.nsot/nsot.conf.py)
nsot-server init

# Create a superuser
nsot-server createsuperuser --email admin@localhost

# Start the server on 8990/tcp
nsot-server start

Then browse the API at http://localhost:8990/api/ or the admin at http://localhost:8990/admin/.

Development

git clone https://github.com/jathanism/nsot.git
cd nsot
uv sync --all-extras

# Run tests
NSOT_API_VERSION=1.0 uv run pytest -vv tests/

# Lint / format
uv run ruff check nsot/ tests/
uv run ruff format nsot/ tests/

Resources

• Documentation
• Python API client / CLI utility (pyNSoT)
• GitHub Issues