Containerlab provides a CLI for orchestrating and managing container-based networking labs. It starts the containers, builds a virtual wiring between them to create lab topologies of users …

Once installed, containerlab manages the labs defined in the so-called topology definition, clab files. A user can write a topology definition file from scratch, or look at various lab examples …

Containerlab runs on Windows powered by Windows Subsystem Linux (aka WSL), where you can run Containerlab directly or in a Devcontainer. Open up Containerlab on Windows …

In containerlab we follow a similar approach: containers launched by containerlab will be attached with their interface to a containerlab-managed docker network. It's best to be explained by an …

containerlab aims to provide a simple, intuitive and yet customizable way to run container based labs. To help our users get a glimpse on the features containerlab packages, we ship some …

Another convenient option to run containerlab on Windows (and macOS) is to use the Devcontainer feature that works great with VS Code and many other IDE's. A development …

Clabernetes motto is "containerlab at scale" and therefore we wanted to make it work with the same topology definition file format as containerlab does. Understandably though, the original …

The talk starts with the reasoning as to why containerlab development was warranted and what features of container-based labs we wanted to have. Then we start building the lab step by …

Containerlab launches, wires up and manages container-based labs. The steps required to launch a vanilla debian or centos container image aren't at all different.

Containerlab supports the docker healthcheck configuration for the nodes. The healthcheck instruction can be set on the defaults, kind or node level, with the node level likely being the …