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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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.

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 …

Affects all containerlab commands in the same way, not just deploy. Intended to be set in environments where non-default container runtime should be used, to avoid needing to specify …

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 …

Containerlab understands two formats of link definition - brief and extended. A brief form of a link definition compresses link parameters in a single string and provide a quick way to define a …

Nowadays more and more workloads are packaged into containers, and containerlab users can nicely integrate them in their labs following a familiar docker' compose-like syntax.