Add "software" and "software_type" objects because "services" is not enough

I've got a ansible playbook that "deploys" a vm that is defined in netbox virtual machine.

on that vm certain software (service) need to be installed

vm 1: Tomcat

vm 2: oracle DB

For my automation to work i need certain variables. You can add custom fields like

Tomcat_install_path

Tomcat_version

Oracle_install_path

Oracle_version

But this is added to ALL services and makes it unmanageable

I would like to be able to create a "Tomcat" software type with it's own custom fields

Tomcat_install_path

Tomcat_version

and a Oracle software type for it's custom fields

Oracle_install_path

Oracle_version

Software is quite diverse so if you have ansible scritps that deploy 20 different applications with each 3 custom fields you get 60 custom fields and that is a bit much

You could also "just add a big json custom field" where you just dump everything in but then you cannot visualize/filter/table view "show all tomcat versions" (unless a jsmpath filter would be possible in the table view)

from the documentation:

Unlike general-purpose CMDBs, NetBox has curated a data model which caters specifically to the needs of network engineers and operators. It delivers a wide assortment of object types carefully crafted to best serve the needs of infrastructure design and documentation. These cover all facets of network technology, from IP address managements to cabling to overlays and more:

--> maybe the mission statement should be altered to do have some "general-purpose" objects. (also maybe netbox should expand it's scope from network engineers and operators to System engineers :) )