Netbox IPAM

PureLB can allocate IP addresses from Netbox’s IP Address Management component. PureLB needs the Netbox instance’s base URL and a Netbox Token, which are managed in Netbox’s Admin console in the “Users” section. The Netbox user that owns the Token needs at least these Netbox permissions:

ipam.view_ipaddress
ipam.change_ipaddress

The Token is injected into PureLB’s allocator pod as an environment variable that references a Kubernetes Secret. To install the token Secret, run:

$ kubectl create secret generic -n purelb netbox-client --from-literal=user-token="your-token"

The PureLB allocator can now be configured to request addresses from Netbox. An example:

apiVersion: purelb.io/v1
kind: ServiceGroup
metadata:
  name: netboxsg
  namespace: purelb
spec:
  netbox:
    url: http://your-netbox-host.your-domain.com/

Operation