Open-source tooling for network automation: generate intended configuration, compare it with what’s running, and apply safe changes to CLI-driven network devices. The ecosystem is designed to work well with a Network Source of Truth (most commonly NetBox) and to support multi-vendor environments.

• Annet — configuration generation and deployment workflow:

  • generate intended config from code/SOT,
  • compute diff against device state,
  • translate diff into vendor-aware CLI commands (“patch”),
  • deploy changes so the diff becomes empty.

• Gnetcli — a Golang CLI automation engine:

  • execute commands (not “expect/screen scraping”),
  • handles pagers/prompts/errors cleanly,
  • usable as a Go library, a CLI tool, or a gRPC server for non-Go integrations.

• Annetbox — a lightweight NetBox client used by Annet and related tools (supports specific NetBox versions; sync/async usage).

• gnetcli_adapter — adapters that connect Annet to Gnetcli for fetching device state and deploying patches.

A common setup looks like:

NetBox (source of truth) → Annet (generate/diff/patch/deploy) → devices
with Annetbox for NetBox API access and Gnetcli (+ adapter) for robust multi-vendor CLI execution.

• Annet docs: https://annetutil.github.io/annet/
• Gnetcli docs: https://annetutil.github.io/gnetcli/
• Telegram support/chat: https://t.me/annet_sup

• Want “intended config → diff → deploy” workflows: start with Annet.
• Need a solid multi-vendor CLI execution layer (library/CLI/gRPC): start with Gnetcli.