NWC 2025: Building A Containerized Nagios XI Development Environment With Ubuntu (Sam Napier)
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Published: April 30, 2026
Duration: 39:01
About This Video
Follow along with Sam Napier as he demonstrates how to build a containerized development environment for Nagios XI using Ubuntu and LXD, featuring rapid deployment of XI instances in under five minutes with a footprint of less than 6.6GB. Learn how to automate monitoring target creation with Python scripts, deploy multiple versions of XI side by side for testing, and leverage system containers (not microservices) to create a low-cost, robust testing environment.