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So you want to build your own data center

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596 points dban | 1 comments | 17 Jan 25 20:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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. jpc0 ◴[18 Jan 25 08:38 UTC] No.42746836[source]▶
I like netbox, had it deployed for quite a while. It's performance was abysmal and I had to shape my world around how they wanted things.

This is the usual case of "We need X and Y does X", but ignoring that Y also does Z,M,Q and washes dishes and you really don't need those things.

Sometimes building what you need is the easiest solution, specially when what you need is CRUD infront of a DB...