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NetBox in Kubernetes

2026-07-07 6 min read Ronny Trommer

I really like NetBox and call myself a NetBox noob too dangerous in many places. I’m currently working on my first NetBox plugin for OpenNMS. I run a mix of workloads on classic virtual machines and also in Kubernetes with containers. The Plugin - NetBox - Kubernetes situation hit me quickly. I’m in the lucky situation of having known Peter Eckel for a very long time. He is the maintainer of the NetBox DNS Plugin and his valuable advice to me was:

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Containers and Capabilities

2022-07-14 5 min read Container How-To Ronny Trommer

I have to work with container images from time to time, and sometimes I need to do networking stuff. Of course, you want to do this as an unprivileged user. Especially when you mix and match with Docker or Kubernetes, it gets sometimes a bit tricky and a lot of people in our community including myself struggled on this part. To document it for my future-self and the ones interested – here is my scenario. I need regularly two things when I run OpenNMS tools in containers:

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