Existing Netbox instance

[ognjen011]

I already have an existing Netbox instance is it possible to link netbox-operator to that instance or is this limited to only update its own instance of netbox inside a cluster?

If it can be done could you provide an example conifg?

[jstudler]

Hey @ognjen011,

Yes, this is possible out of the box. NetBox Operator gets the reference to the NetBox instance using environment variables like NETBOX_HOST or HTTPS_ENABLE: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-operator/blob/main/pkg/config/config.go#L43-L50

In https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-operator/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md you can find an example on how these environment variables should be set for e.g. demo.netbox.dev.

So if you use the Kustomization from this repo, you will need to patch these environment variables in the deployment.

When deploying to a Kubernetes cluster, you can also use the helm chart for convenience: https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-chart/tree/main/charts/netbox-operator

I hope this helps!