Add the ability to sync a git repo that doesn't match any of the current 'Provides'

[gneville-ot]

As ...

Austin - Network Automation Engineer

I want ...

the ability to clone a git repo that doesn't match any of the current 'Provides' in nautobot today.

So that ...

I can separate my "data" from my "code" when I use an SSoT Job.

I know this is done when...

• I have the ability to clone a git repo that doesn't match any of the 'Provides' today

Optional - Feature groups this request pertains to.

• Automation
• Circuits
• DCIM
• IPAM
• Misc (including Data Sources)
• Organization
• Plugins (and other Extensibility)
• Security (Secrets, etc)
• Image Management
• UI/UX
• Documentation
• Other (not directly a platform feature)

Database Changes

• ?

External Dependencies

• ?

[gneville-ot]

Example:

• Git Repo 1 contains YAML files that users can raise PRs to change
• Git Repo 2 contains the SSoT job code that can read the YAML files from Git Repo 1

[glennmatthews]

Probably solvable at the job level by having the SSoT job call "ensure_git_repository()` or various lower-level code?

[lampwins]

I think the answer to this is that SSoT should register a "data" provider type that can then be referenced to the repo.