Feature - Add task to pop open web browser to nautobot page

[msheiny]

What's Changed

• Added an invoke target for the nautobot-app type that will open up a web-browser to the nautobot web interface of the running container.

Testing

I tested this on my mac workstation against the nautobot-app-floor-plan repo locally:

Ξ code/nautobot-app-floor-plan git:(develop) ▶ inv open-nautobot-web
Running docker compose command "port nautobot 8080"
0.0.0.0:8080

I also confirmed that when the nautobot container service is not running the output is helpful:

Ξ code/nautobot-app-floor-plan git:(develop) ▶ inv open-nautobot-web
Running docker compose command "port nautobot 8080"
service "nautobot" is not running

I did not test the invoke command on a linux box explicitly BUT i jumped on my fedora personal workstation to confirm that i had xdg-open in my default path and that running that command with a URI opened up my default browser pointing to that.

[msheiny]

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[msheiny]

FYI, looks like this will not work on Windows under WSL, two issues:

• Python thinks its running under Linux
• the xdg-open command in WSL needs some kind of translation layer to hit the host Windows OS, one would need to use a custom script or script like this to make it work.

Personally, I don't see that as a big deal but happy to dig further if windows compatibility is a must

[msheiny]

Talked with @gsnider2195 who is using VSCode under windows via remote ssh to a linux dev box. He indicated that VSCode intercepts the xdg-open call and will prompt to open a web-browser. I was unable to replicate this on VSCode under windows using the wsl extension.

I did however tweak the behavior in latest commit to print out an error message with the URL they want to visit, example:

 tests/nautobot-app-app-blah-2 → poetry run inv open-nautobot-web
Running docker compose command "port nautobot 8080"
0.0.0.0:52184
Unable to open browser. Nautobot interface at http://0.0.0.0:52184