Plugin for manage LoadBalancer with Netbox

How to install plugin

1. Incase Netbox Manual Install

This plugin require installed netbox first, if you don't have netbox please refer this document to install it (https://docs.netbox.dev/en/stable/installation/)

Install Plugin with pip

source /opt/netbox/venv/bin/activate

cd /opt/netbox/netbox
pip3 install netbox-loadbalancer

sudo sh -c "echo 'django-auth-ldap' >> /opt/netbox/local_requirements.txt"

Enable plugin in /opt/netbox/netbox/netbox/configuration.py

PLUGINS = [
    'netbox_loadbalancer'
]

Migrate Database for newly Plugin

cd /opt/netbox/netbox
python3 manage.py migrate

Restart Netbox service

sudo systemctl restart netbox netbox-rq

2. Incase Netbox Install with Docker compose

To install netbox with docker-compose use this repository (https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-docker)

Suppose you use /opt for netbox docker working directory

First, Re-build base image for netbox

mkdir /tmp/netbox-docker-rebuild && cd /tmp/netbox-docker-rebuild

cat << EOF > plugin_requirements.txt
gunicorn
netbox-loadbalancer
EOF

cat << EOF > Dockerfile
FROM netboxcommunity/netbox:v3.4-2.4.0

COPY plugin_requirements.txt /
RUN /opt/netbox/venv/bin/pip install  --no-warn-script-location -r /plugin_requirements.txt
EOF

docker build -t netbox-custom:latest .

Then Change config for netbox docker

cd /opt/netbox-docker/

Change image from docker-compose.yml

version: '3.4'
services:
  netbox: &netbox
    image: netbox-custom:latest <-- Change this line to your custom image name
    depends_on:
    - postgres
    - redis
...

Add plugin to /opt/netbox-docker/configuration/configuration.py

PLUGINS = [
    'netbox_loadbalancer'
]

Finally Run Netbox with docker-compose

cd /opt/netbox-docker/
docker-compose up