NetOps Platform - Public Beta

NetOps Platform 8.5 is a public beta. It is not a production-certified or general-availability release; review the capability matrix and remaining promotion gates before using it against operational infrastructure.

NetOps is a local-first network operations platform for inventory, topology, VLAN analysis, endpoint path inspection, diagnostics, device access, evidence history, and guarded changes. Its first screen is an uncluttered command hub; the same registry drives the CLI, TUI actions, Markdown reference, man page, and Bash, Zsh, and Fish completions.

The 8.5 beta introduces isolated XDG profiles, named encrypted secrets, provenance-preserving ingest channels, disabled-by-default trusted plugins, capability-specific device drivers, and the Ghoster L2/L3 path inspector. Defaults contain no site-specific aliases, address shorthand, credentials, or vendor-wide support claims.

Install

For the GitHub beta wheel, use pipx so the CLI and TUI run in an isolated environment:

pipx install ./netops_platform-8.5.0b2-py3-none-any.whl
netops init
netops config set ssh_user operator
netops diagnose doctor

After the distribution is published on PyPI, use pipx install netops-platform. Use pip install netops-platform only inside a virtual environment. Do not install the unrelated netops distribution.

Linux and WSL2 are supported; macOS is experimental. See installation.md for wheel installation, migration, and rollback.

Start

netop tui
netops tui
netops inventory list
netops inventory merge OLD-SW01 CURRENT-SW01 --reason "approved replacement" --dry-run
netops device support
netops ingest channels
netops path inspect 02:00:00:00:00:25 --vlan 120 --cached
netops diagnose speed --profile quick

The PyPI distribution is netops-platform; both netops and netop are console commands. netops serve is experimental, single-user, and loopback-only.

Documentation

• Operator and Maintainer Handbook
• Generated Command Reference
• Profiles and Extensibility
• Ghoster Path Inspector
• Device Support Matrix
• Release Status and Gates
• Security Policy
• Contribution Guide

Device support is advertised per capability, model, and firmware evidence. Configuration writes require a certified built-in profile, explicit enablement, preview, backup, confirmation, verification, and audit. Third-party and declarative drivers are read-only in 8.5.

Licensed under Apache-2.0. Product and vendor names describe interoperability; see Third-Party Notices.