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Network Source of Truth is an open source IPAM and network inventory database
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Feature: "Allocations" Resource #234

Open coxley opened 7 years ago

coxley commented 7 years ago

There have been issues raised about tracking VRFs, VLANs, ASNs, etc. Talking through implementation of Protocol brought this up again w.r.t ASNs.

We should have a generic resource for "Allocations" or whatever you want to call them. These are lighter-weight objects that don't need much, but not tracking metadata at all would suck.

Worth noting that I don't think is a requirement for Protocol. We obviously already have VLAN ID on Interface. Will be nice to have though.

jathanism commented 7 years ago

I'm glad you thought of that. And it just occurred to me that we already have that in progress, but they're currently called Iterable.

Check out this PR from @termlen0 https://github.com/dropbox/nsot/pull/218

@coxley Take a look at that PR and let's see if it fits the bill. I think it does. I had already been tossing around the idea that something like ASN is super specific and maybe doesn't need its own first-class resource.

termlen0 commented 7 years ago

YES! This is exactly what the Iterables is trying to address :)

mpenning commented 5 years ago

I'm curious... did the iterables idea die on the vine, or did the idea get implemented under another name?

A simple string for "iterable" turns up nothing; searching for "allocation" gives more results, but it doesn't seem to be implemented as a general feature.