Netutils UI through a Nautobot application

[jedelman8]

As you guys are thinking about the general roadmap for Netutils, it would be great to consider an associated Nautobot application. At its core, Netutils was built to simplify Python development for network automation engineers and developers. It would be great to have an associated UI for straight up network engineers like Nelly :).

[jeffkala]

I'm struggling to understand how this would look and operate, just because Netutils is mainly helper functions. Do you already have thoughts around what features it would offer?

[itdependsnetworks]

Just think of it like an ip calculator. There does not have to be models for it even. We have a blog based on the same idea: https://blog.networktocode.com/post/getting-started-with-django/

[jeffkala]

Gotcha, makes sense.

[Kircheneer]

Does it make sense to tightly couple this with Nautobot, as in would we utilize any data inside of Nautobot, or does it also/instead make sense to provide either a standalone web service, possibly even a public one for people to consume without self-hosting?