Cookiecutter NetBox Plugin

Cookiecutter template for a NetBox plugin, built with popular develop tools and conform to best practice.

• Documentation: https://netbox-community.github.io/cookiecutter-netbox-plugin/

Note: Plugins from this version target NetBox 4.0+

Features

This tool will create Python project with the following features:

• Mkdocs: Writing your docs in markdown style
• Format with Black and Isort
• Lint code with Flake8 and Flake8-docstrings
• Pre-commit hooks: Formatting/linting anytime when commit your code
• Mkdocstrings: Auto API doc generation
• Continuous Integration/Deployment by GitHub actions, includes:
  • publish documents automatically when CI success
  • extract changelog from CHANGELOG and integrate with release notes automatically
• Host your documentation from GitHub Pages with zero-config

Quickstart

Install the latest Cookiecutter if you haven't installed it yet (this requires Cookiecutter 1.4.0 or higher):

pip install -U cookiecutter

Generate a Python package project:

cookiecutter https://github.com/netbox-community/cookiecutter-netbox-plugin.git

Then follow Tutorial to finish other configurations.