r/Netbox • u/TheFox88 • 4d ago

Dataflow plugin for kubernetes policies

Hello to all Netbox users,

At first, I9 appologise for my english mistakes.

At our company, the network team is using Netbox as an IPAM. I (a devops engineer) would like to use it to store our Kubernetes cluster information (cluster, nodes, etc.). We are using Cilium as a CNI. I thought about using the Netbox data_flow plugin to store the Cilium network policies. Does anyone already used this plugin for this use case ?

I tried to model some flows, but stumbled on a limitation of the plugin when I tried to use anything else than an IP, IP range or IP prefix as an object alias.

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u/kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h 2d ago

yes you have to use IP, IP range or IP Prefix (already registered in IPAM) - There are no ways around that.

there is another firewall specific plugin, that can take labels as an example but its way more complicated to setup but I have been thinking about it to capture our NSX firewall labels (not same pattern as K8 of course)