Add Role or Type to models where it make sense

[dgarros]

Environment

• Nautobot version: 1.1.4
• nautobot-plugin-firewall-model version: 0.1.0

Proposed Functionality

I think having Role and/or Type on as many objects as possible would be very useful
Of course it's not applicable to all of them

Use Case

Being able to track the Role or the Type of a given object is a key part of the Source of Truth and it very helpful when we need to automate that resource.

[whitej6]

Thinking of ipam:Role? I like the idea, kinda think ipam:Role should be extras:Role instead for an appropriate place.

[dgarros]

Yes until we have something better : either we can use ipam:role or we should consider adding a new role model as part of the plugin. Recently, we went with option 2 for another plugin but both have pro and cons

I agree we should have a generic extras:role model, similar to extras:status in core, it's being tracked as part of the Core Data Model Epic > nautobot/nautobot#768
I don't think we have a dedicated issue for it right now.

[whitej6]

I would vote option 2 with the desire to move to extras:role when it is added to core.

[whitej6]

It could just be a subclass of ipam:role to be able to avoid confusion on having to assign an ipam role that's used in a service definition.

[dgarros]

I would vote option 2 with the desire to move to extras:role when it is added to core.

Sounds good to me,
FYI, I opened a new issue in core to track that nautobot/nautobot#1063

[whitej6]

Accepted as a duplicated model with desire to go to extras:role