NetBlue: from experience to product
Update on the NetBlue MVP with cockpit, inventory and the first step toward discovery.
After more than 25 years working with network automation and inventory in large-scale environments, I started revisiting solutions I built over time.
That’s how NetBlue was born — with the goal of turning real-world experience into a product.
A practical evolution of those experiences, now structured as a platform.
Development happens in spare time, incrementally — but with a clear objective: to build something solid, applicable, and ready for real environments.
💻 Recent progress
- Initial inventory view
- Base structure for topology and services
- Data organization designed for future evolution
(This first version already shows the direction of the product.)
🔧 Next step: Discovery MVP
- Automated network data collection (SNMP / SSH / API / CORBA / NETCONF)
- Inventory enrichment
- Foundation for topology building
This will be validated using lab environments: EVE-NG and containerlab, simulating real-world scenarios.
⚙️ Architecture
The foundation is being built with Elixir / Phoenix, leveraging:
- high concurrency
- efficient processing
- scalable architecture
📌 Platform vision
- Network Inventory
- Discovery
- Topology
With a natural path toward Service Mapping and Observability.
Why this matters
This update makes the strategy explicit: the first visible cockpit is already running, and the next step is to turn that interface into a platform backed by discovery and topological data.