# Introduction to the Netos NetOps Project

### Introduction

Our goal with our Sempahore projects is to deliver a framework that makes it simple and fast to deploy and manage open-source enterprise networking applications and tools.

- Quickly spin up an enterprise grade application stack (in minutes).
- Deal with all the critical yet time consuming platform engineering at the click of a button.
- Deal with the boring but important stuff like backups, restores, and maintenance.
- Fast track to the interesting stuff like playing with the tools and dev/test.

Over time we will publish more projects with associated playbooks. Currently available is:

- **Netos NetOps** - A simple wrapper project for managing the underlying Semaphore instance.
- **[Netos NetBox](https://docs.netos.io/books/semaphore-netbox)** - Contains all the playbooks to deploy and operate NetBox.

### Ansible Semaphore

[Semaphore UI](https://semaphoreui.com/) is a simple and easy to use alternative to Ansible AWX. Netos have used it for over a year without issues to run thousands of playbooks and manage all of our infrastructure.

> It is convenient and easy to use - user friendly web interface for executing Ansible playbooks, Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi code and Bash scripts. It is designed to make your automation tasks easier and more enjoyable.

#### Playbooks

At a click of a button you can perform complex installations, like installing NetBox, and a lot more.

[![image.png](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/71wbyiHjGjGkxAhG-image.png)](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/71wbyiHjGjGkxAhG-image.png)

#### Views

Views group together different playbooks, for example, below you can the tasks that deploy NetBox:

[![image.png](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/5DfcRO8DDl2Pk2i3-image.png)](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/5DfcRO8DDl2Pk2i3-image.png)



#### Semaphore Projects

Finally, we group everything together into different projects.

[![image.png](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/scaled-1680-/12zAWmNZGSmMfglI-image.png)](https://docs.netos.io/uploads/images/gallery/2024-09/12zAWmNZGSmMfglI-image.png)