nbcli init

$ nbcli init -h
usage: nbcli init [-h] [-v] [-q]

Initialize nbcli.

Default confg directory location $HOME/.nbcli
After running edit $HOME/.nbcli/user_config.yml with your credentials.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose  Show more logging messages
  -q, --quiet    Show fewer logging messages

Create nbcli config directory and related files.

Example Usage:

- Initialize nbcli
  $ nbcli init

Config Directory

The default nbcli directory is :code:~/.nbcli/ this can be changed by setting the NBCLI_DIR to a new directory

export NBCLI_DIR=/path/to/alt/directory

Config File

The config file user_config.yml is located in the root of the config directory.

Values defined under pynetbox will be directly used to create the pynetbox api instance.
at minimum url and token need to be set.

pynetbox:
  url: http://localhost:8080
  token: 0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef01234567

Values defined under requests will be used to create a custom requests Session.

If you need to disable SSL verification, add (or uncomment) the following to your user_config.yml file.

requests:
  verify: false