Containerlab notes

Bring up a lab

containerlab deploy

Bringing down a lab

containerlab destroy

Restarting an individual container

dcoker restart [container name]

Managing images

All images are docker images. You can mnnage them as below.

Listing images

root@r620:~# docker images
REPOSITORY                            TAG        IMAGE ID       CREATED          SIZE
vrnetlab/cisco_vios                   15.6.7     c2639dfa6e6d   37 minutes ago   545MB

Removing images

docker rmi c2639dfa6e6d

Saving an image

docker save c2639dfa6e6d | gzip > docker_cisco_vios_15_6_7.tar.gz

Cisco vios

Username: admin
Password: admin
cisco.clab.yaml

name: cisco

topology:
  nodes:
    vios:
      kind: linux
      image: vrnetlab/cisco_vios:15.6.7
      env:
        HOSTNAME: vios

  links:
    - endpoints: ["vios:eth1"]

Documentation:
containerlab vios
vrnetlab vios

Fortigate

Username: admin
Password: admin
fortigate.clab.yml

name: fortigate

topology:
  nodes:
    fortigate:
      kind: fortinet_fortigate
      image: vrnetlab/vr-fortios:7.0.15

  links:
    - endpoints: ["fortigate:eth1", "fortigate:eth2"]

Documentation:
containerlab fortigate
vrnetlab fortigate

Juniper vMX

Username: admin
Password: admin@123
vmx.clab.yml

name: vmx

topology:
  nodes:
    vmx:
      kind: juniper_vmx
      image: vrnetlab/juniper_vmx:21.2R3.8

  links:
    - endpoints: ["vmx:eth1"]

Documentation
containerlab vmx
vrnetlab vmx

Ubuntu

Username: clab
Password: clab@123
ubuntu.clab.yml

name: ubuntu

topology:
  nodes:
    ubuntu:
      kind: generic_vm
      image: vrnetlab/canonical_ubuntu:jammy

  links:
    - endpoints: ["ubuntu:eth1"]

Documentation
containerlab ubuntu
‘vrnetlab ubuntu <https://github.com/hellt/vrnetlab/tree/master/ubuntu>`_