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So you want to build your own data center

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261 points dban | 2 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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jdoss ◴[17 Jan 25 23:16 UTC] No.42744258[source]▶
This is a pretty decent write up. One thing that comes to mind is why would you write your own internal tooling for managing a rack when Netbox exists? Netbox is fantastic and I wish I had this back in the mid 2000s when I was managing 50+ racks.

https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox

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1. matt-p ◴[18 Jan 25 00:41 UTC] No.42744734[source]▶
It is not that difficult to build it into your app, if you're already storing information about hosts, networking etc. All you're really doing is expanding the scope, netbox is a fine starting point if you're willing to start there and build your systems around it, but if you've already got a system (or you need to do anything that doesn't fit netbox logic) you're probably better off just extending it.

In this case railway will need to care about a lot of extra information beyond just racks, IP addresses and physical servers.

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2. ca508 ◴[18 Jan 25 01:34 UTC] No.42744989[source]▶
correct; I think the first version of our tool sprung up in the space of a couple of weekends. It wasn't planned, my colleague Pierre who wrote it just had a lot of fun building it.