Ability to apply parent platform config context values to device in children platforms

[Alex-Ignatov]

NetBox version

v4.4.2

Feature type

Change to existing functionality

Proposed functionality

Config contexts can use Platforms as conditions to apply given context to a particular device. With introduction of parent field for the platforms I believe it would be beneficial for Config Contexts to apply data to device based on parent as well and not just a child.

Currently, only if device is assigned to exactly that specific platform config contexts would be applied, but we have following platform hierarchy:

• SROS:
  • SROS-21
  • SROS-24

Config contexts defined for parent SROS will be rendered/applied for devices that have platforms SROS-21 and SROS-24.

Use case

This will remove duplication of values between children platforms, that could have been defined at parent level.

Database changes

N/A

External dependencies

N/A

[jeremystretch]

We've flagged this as a breaking change because it will cause a change to the content of rendered config contexts in the case where a config context is already assigned to a parent platform.

[Alex-Ignatov]

Do I understand correctly that this is not possible to implement?