NetBox Appliance 0.1.0

Deployable community NetBox appliance for vSphere. Start with the attached Deployment Guide (DOCX).

Included: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, NetBox, PostgreSQL, Valkey, offline container images, interactive first-boot setup, and optional vCenter inventory, UniFi VLAN/DHCP pool, DNS reconciliation and encrypted SFTP backup connectors.

Requirements: 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 64 GiB system disk and a new blank 100 GiB data disk. Map the Management network, power on, and complete the console prompts. No default password, original inventory or preconfigured external connections are included.

Validated: fresh OVA import in vCenter, first-boot initialization, six healthy containers, HTTPS administrator login and restart persistence. Connector logic was qualified with controlled fixtures; validate your own external endpoints during onboarding.

Limitations: vCenter collects core VM/cluster inventory, not guest IPs or ESXi device records. UniFi collects configured pools, not individual leases. DNS updates existing NetBox IP dns_name fields and does not write DNS. VCF Operations, IDB SSO, Windows DHCP leases and controlled DNS creation are not included.

Verify the OVA using SHA256SUMS.txt or the .ova.sha256 sidecar before importing. Read the Release Verification document for test coverage. The appliance is not an official NetBox or VMware distribution.

This download release contains the OVA and Word documentation. The Build Guide describes the build process; the appliance source bundle is not attached. GitHub autogenerated source archives contain only this repository’s documents. The checksum manifest also lists the locally retained source ZIP.