04.Start Nautobot

Nikos Kallergis
11 steps
5 minutes

In a new VSCode instance, click on the "remote" icon in the bottom-left corner

In the pop-up, select "Connect Current Window to Host...", type "ntc@FQDN_OF_YOUR_POD" and press Enter

Click "Open Folder"

Under your home folder, select the "nautobot-app-containerlab" directory

Click "OK"

Open "development/creds.env"

Enter your Github token and save

Open a terminal, type "poetry run invoke start logs -ft 100 -s nautobot", and press enter. You should see Nautobot starting and its database migrations being executed. This will take 1-2 minutes until you finally see the message "Starting development server at <http://0.0.0.0:8080/>"

At this point, VSCode will automatically perform port forwarding and you should be able to see Nautobot by navigating to http://localhost:8080

Let's also forward port 8081 to facilitate our interactions with containerlab. Click the "ports" icon

Add port 8081 and press enter