Plugin install bootstrap

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Desired Behavior

Specify a list of netbox plugins to install (via ENV variable or mounting a requirements.txt file to a given directory) that on boot will install the listed packages to be used in the instance.

This option should support either pulling from pypi or installing local whl files that are mounted to the container.

Current Behavior

This function is not possible currently at runtime

Alternatives Considered

To achieve a similar result the docker image has to be built manually with the additional packages install on build.

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[boomertsfx]

I was just looking at this as well -- I want to enable LDAP (AD) auth, but the django-auth-ldap module isn't installed. The official https://github.com/netbox-community/netbox-docker lets you add -ldap to the image tag to get one with LDAP enabled.

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[absmith82]

I am also trying to get SAML to work using netbox-plugin-auth-saml2, and while I have gotten some things to work, I can't get it to fully provision users information due to this error.

Insufficient write permission to the media root

Having a way to bootstrap plugins would be awesome so that we don't have to hack at the container everytime a new version comes out.

[lanefu]

hello.. i found a work-around using some of the custom-init features baked into teh linuxserver.io base image.

since i just mount a /config volume to the container.. i created the file below, and also updated my configuration.py and it worked

root@myserver:/etc/netbox# cat config/custom-cont-init.d/00-install_netbox_plugins
pip3 install --no-cache-dir netbox-topology-views

there was a bit of an order of operations error (looked for plugin before pip) at startup in the container logs, but ultimately it all worked.

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[DarylStark]

@lanefu yes, that works, but you have to start the container two times (the first one to install the plugin, the second one to include it into NetBox and create the needed tables). It might be better is the custom-cont-init.d scripts were run before the start of Netbox.

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[sgofferj]

Since Netbox 3.3, the custom-cont-init.d method doesn't seem to work any more.