Nautobot 3.1 Brings MCP and Drift Detection to the Source of Truth
Nautobot three point one ships MCP integration and operational drift detection, completing a week where every major source-of-truth platform added an AI agent interface simultaneously. Plus: the EVPN Asymmetric IRB prerequisites your fabric validation checklist is probably missing, four Chinese labs match Western frontier coding benchmarks in twelve days at a tenth the cost, and a twenty-five-year quantum dead end solved with a passive optics box.
Welcome to Amaze Networks for Wednesday, May fourteenth. Nautobot three point one is out today, and the Model Context Protocol integration story is the one that changes how every agentic automation pipeline gets built — we're going to dig into that first.
And it lands at exactly the right moment, because this is actually the fourth major source-of-truth or network intelligence platform to ship an M C P interface this week. That pattern is worth talking about separately.
Yeah, we're going to get to that. Also on the show today: Ivan Pepelnjak has a new EVPN deep-dive that continues the A R P series we covered last Wednesday, and it has some important things to say about the hidden prerequisites in asymmetric I R B deployments.
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