I cannot comment on the DCIM side, but I agree on the "everything as code" mantra. For a relatively small setup I chose a combination of Ansible, Kubernetes an

I cannot comment on the DCIM side, but I agree on the "everything as code" mantra. For a relatively small setup I chose a combination of Ansible, Kubernetes and Dockerfiles, but probably any combination will do. All these files are stored in a git repo. Even after months (or years) neglect, I can easily know what I configured (and why!) and update where needed with a minor effort.