NetBox Labs announces infrastructure intelligence platform with new capabilities spanning entire network and infrastructure lifecycle. June 11, 2026 Celebrating 10 years of NetBox, the company announces flagship NetBox conference to lead the next evolution of infrastructure innovation for the AI Era NEW YORK, June 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - NetBox Labs today launched its infrastructure intelligence platform, a unified system that lets technology infrastructure teams model their intent, see what's procured and how it's deployed, act through AI-accelerated automation, and govern every change with guardrails for humans and AI agents. With hundreds of thousands of deployments, NetBox is the industry standard system of record that sits at the core of the NetBox Labs Platform. Already critical to the operations of neoclouds, hyperscale AI datacenters, enterprises, and OT operators worldwide, companies like ARM, Cisco, CoreWeave and J.P. Morgan Chase rely upon the NetBox Labs Platform to manage complex, fast-evolving infrastructure at enormous scale. The platform's breadth is reflected in how customers use it: more than a third rely on multiple NetBox Labs products to run their infrastructure operations. Today, NetBox Labs is rapidly expanding its platform to address full-spectrum infrastructure intelligence needs for its massive install base. As networks and infrastructure have become more complex, teams need more than just a network source of truth to help them make sense of their increasingly complicated footprint. With today's array of new capabilities, the NetBox Labs Platform extends infrastructure intelligence to organizations at any stage in their modernization journey to model, see, act upon, and govern their infrastructure with confidence. MODEL: The World's Infrastructure data NetBox Data Exchange (NDX) is the world's largest curated catalog of infrastructure component metadata, covering tens of thousands of device types across hundreds of manufacturers. Instead of digging through vendor PDFs, teams pull lifecycle, environmental, operational, and observability metadata directly into the NetBox Labs Platform, ready for planning, automation, compliance, and AI-driven workflows. More here. NetBox Asset Lifecycle is a native procurement pipeline connecting network design to physical deployment. It generates and manages bills of materials (BOMs), purchase orders, shipments, and spares against planned DCIM objects - creating one auditable thread from approval through installation in the system of record teams already trust. More here. SEE: Continuous Visibility from Intent to Reality NetBox Assurance shows teams what's deployed, how it's changing, and where operational reality differs from intended design. The product's discovery capabilities eliminate manual data entry and detect drift, while NetBox Assurance continuously validates that your system of record matches what's running, so teams can understand and fix drift, ensuring automation always runs on current, accurate data. More here. ACT: The Infrastructure Data Layer for AI Agents The NetBox Labs Platform MCP Server and a new array of official agent skills for the NetBox Labs ecosystem make infrastructure readable and writable by AI agents. With comprehensive tools for every platform capability, per-user authentication, and data management guardrails with branching and change approval gates, any MCP-compatible agent can operate the NetBox Labs Platform, and the open library with dozens of agent skills teaches it to do so correctly. Now, any agent can work with NetBox Labs, complementing the platform's embedded agent, NetBox Copilot. More here. GOVERN: Compliance and Resilience, Validated before every Change NetBox Validation brings continuous compliance auditing, pre-change safety verification, and infrastructure resilience analysis into the NetBox Labs Platform. It combines three engines - intent validation, configuration analysis, and infrastructure resilience - to answer two questions: "Is this change safe to deploy?" and "What breaks if this fails?" With NetBox Validation, teams gain compliance and audit readiness. Meanwhile, AI agents gain critical guardrails and self-correction capabilities enabling agentic operations with confidence. More here. The NetBox Labs Platform news comes as the company and the NetBox community celebrate a decade since the open source network source of truth was first released. Since its start in 2016, NetBox has earned 20,000+ GitHub stars, with more than 350 releases and 15,000+ commits from nearly 400 contributors, making it the world's most widely adopted system of record for complex networks and infrastructure. In 2023, NetBox Labs was founded as the commercial steward of NetBox with the mission to make it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure. Over the last three years, the company has announced innovations spanning operations, observability, drift management, AI, and much more, rapidly extending the impact of the NetBox Labs Platform and driving accelerating growth and adoption. The company has raised more than $55 million from world class investors, and developed strategic partnerships across the global system integrator ecosystem including WWT, AHEAD, Presidio, and more. "Ten years ago, NetBox solved a critical problem by giving infrastructure teams an authoritative source of truth," said Kris Beevers, CEO and cofounder of NetBox Labs. "But today, enterprises of all maturity levels need more than just a source of truth. They need a system of record that delivers a trusted, continuously updated understanding of infrastructure that both humans and AI can operate against safely and confidently. Whether just starting out with agents or well on your way to an automated infrastructure management stack, NetBox Labs is the foundational platform for running infrastructure at any scale. We are proud of how far NetBox has come and thankful for our community. NetBox Labs will always invest in open source, while continuing to quickly expand our commercial platform to help organizations manage growing complexity with greater speed, confidence, and control." To mark the 10th birthday of open source NetBox, NetBox Labs will be hosting NetBox Evolve, its inaugural conference for the community, customers and partners, on October 13, 2026 at the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida. Those interested in learning more can visit netboxevolve.com. About NetBox Labs NetBox Labs simplifies the full infrastructure lifecycle for the world's most demanding technical environments. As the commercial steward of NetBox, the open-source infrastructure system of record trusted by 10,000+ organizations for more than a decade, NetBox Labs streamlines infrastructure procurement, modeling, deployment and management for both humans and agents. The company's infrastructure intelligence platform powers business-critical systems at companies like ARM, CoreWeave, J.P. Morgan, Kaiser Permanente, and Riot Games trust NetBox Labs to manage the networks and infrastructure critical to their business. 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NetBox as a Living source of truth: how Redlineperf manage HPC lab infrastructure. Rethinking Infrastructure Management in High-Performance Computing If you've ever relied on spreadsheets, scattered documentation, or tribal knowledge to track what's in your data center, you already know the problem. In high performance computing (HPC) environments where dense racks, multi-node chassis, mixed networking, and constant repurposing are the norm, that approach doesn't just fall short it becomes a liability. That's why Redlineperf adopted NetBox, the open-source data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform, as the authoritative source of truth for its RedLine lab. But Redlineperf didn't stop at adoption. Redlineperf turned NetBox into a living, self-maintaining model of its entire infrastructure and one that engineers and admins can actually trust. Why NetBox? Because Automation Demands Accuracy NetBox isn't just an inventory tool. It's a structured database built around real data center concepts: racks, devices, interfaces, cables, VLANs, IP addresses, and more. Every physical and logical object in its environment is modeled, normalized, and queryable from a single pane of glass. For its HPC lab, the value proposition is clear: automation depends on correct data. When provisioning scripts, monitoring systems, and configuration pipelines all consume infrastructure data, that data must be accurate. Not "accurate as of last Tuesday." Redlineperf need real-time fidelity. NetBox maps perfectly to its environment. Racks, chassis, blades, NICs, switch ports, VMs - all of it is consistently represented. Redlineperf always know what hardware Redlineperf has, where it's physically located, and what it's connected to. Treating NetBox as a Living Data Set The real differentiator isn't NetBox itself but how Redlineperf use it. Redlineperf don't manually maintain its instance. Instead, Redlineperf has built custom sync pipelines that continuously enrich NetBox with live data pulled from multiple sources: * IPMI/iDRAC - for hardware facts like model, serial number, and MAC addresses * Proxmox - for VM inventory, resource utilization, and cluster state * pfSense - for DHCP leases and firewall-side IP assignments * FreeIPA - for DNS names and domain integration * Switch MAC address tables - for physical port-to-device correlation The result? Cables, MACs, VLANs, and IPs are automatically validated and corrected. When someone moves a cable, renames a device, or spins up a VM, NetBox knows about it and not because someone updated a spreadsheet, but because the automation pipeline detected the change. This eliminates manual entry errors, reduces configuration drift, and gives every engineer full clarity into lab operations. From Raw Data to Structured Intelligence One of the most powerful components of its workflow is the custom scripting layer built on pynetbox, the official Python API client for NetBox. Using pynetbox alongside NetBox's full REST and GraphQL APIs, Redlineperf can programmatically create devices, assign interfaces, populate IPs, and build cable records - all from a single command. Consider its IPMI importer script as an example. It connects to a device's out-of-band management interface, authenticates, and pulls key hardware facts. It then correlates those facts against switch MAC tables to determine exactly which switch port a server is connected to. From there, it automatically creates the cable object, assigns VLANs, populates interface records, and updates rack position metadata. The goal: onboard a server with a single command instead of dozens of manual entries. Extending NetBox with Custom Plug-ins Out of the box, NetBox covers core DCIM and IPAM use cases. But HPC labs have unique operational needs. That's why Redlineperf built a custom Projects plug-in that lets Redlineperf assign physical resources - compute nodes, storage, networking - to specific projects and teams. Each project tracks ownership, team leads, and resource allocation. Engineers can immediately see which resources are in use, which are available, and how to plan for new workloads. This eliminates resource conflicts, provides accountability, and gives leadership a clear operational view of lab utilization. The Bigger Picture NetBox has fundamentally changed how Redlineperf operate. Instead of maintaining static documentation that's outdated the moment it's written, Redlineperf maintain a dynamic, API-driven model that reflects reality at all times. Infrastructure becomes queryable, auditable, and automatable. For any team managing complex, high-density environments, whether HPC, cloud labs, or enterprise data centers, the takeaway is simple: your infrastructure data is only as valuable as it is accurate, and accuracy at scale requires automation. NetBox, combined with the right integrations and a commitment to treating infrastructure as code, delivers exactly that.

IP Fabric expands NetBox Integration to deliver continuous network validation for enterprise operations. New capabilities help enterprises align network intent with operational reality to reduce the risk of automations and configuration changes. May 13, 2026 09:04 ET | Source: IP Fabric BOSTON, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - IP Fabric, the leading network digital twin platform, today announced expanded integration capabilities with NetBox. These capabilities compare the actual network state discovered by IP Fabric with the intended network state stored in NetBox. By highlighting the differences between the network's actual versus intended state, organizations gain the visibility essential for validating day-to-day changes, automating workflows and enforcing compliance controls. "Enterprises rely on multiple operational systems to manage and automate modern networks, but those systems can create value only when the actual and intended network states are aligned," said Pavel Bykov, co-founder and CEO of IP Fabric. "IP Fabric's enhanced NetBox integration provides customers with a continuously validated understanding of their network, which ensures that services are available and reduces the risk of projects like network automation and AIOps." Only IP Fabric continuously discovers all network devices, connections, and configurations from core to cloud to edge. Each time IP Fabric discovers the network, it runs a series of configuration checks against the network intent stored in NetBox. This feedback loop takes only a few minutes to run, and is a reliable way to find unauthorized devices, identify inventory and configuration drift, and validate that both manual and automated changes have had the intended effect on the network. As a result, enterprises can rest assured that the network remains resilient and secure as they expand automation and AI initiatives, as well as other large-scale digital transformation projects. Enterprise Benefits of IP Fabric's NetBox Integration Network teams are under increasing pressure to move faster without introducing risk. IP Fabric's enhanced NetBox integration introduces fast, enterprise-scale data syncs that help organizations to maintain a continuous feedback loop between network intent and network reality. This opens the door to: * Build AIOps workflows based on normalized, interoperable data. * Accelerate NetBox deployment and lifecycle management. * Validate manual and automated workflows. * Proactively identify configuration drift. * Prove continuous security and regulatory compliance. To learn more about IP Fabric's NetBox integration, visit the IP Fabric blog or schedule a demo today. About IP Fabric IP Fabric is the leading network digital twin platform, offering a continuously validated view of cloud, network and security systems to improve stability, security and spend. Within minutes, the platform creates a unified view of devices, state, configurations and interdependencies, normalizing multi-vendor data and revealing operational truth through automated intent checks. By uncovering risks and providing actionable insights, IP Fabric empowers enterprises to accelerate IT and business transformation while reducing costs. Trusted by industry leaders like Red Hat, Major League Baseball and Air France, IP Fabric delivers the foundation for end-to-end network governance. Learn more at ipfabric.io and follow the company on LinkedIn.