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npa-showcase

Welcome!

Here you will find a bunch of ready to go labs based on a wide variety of network topologies and automation concepts using the Containerlab as the orchestration engine.

Design Summary

A labs Containerlab file will:

  • Build the Network device containers, relevant links between them and apply a basic managment configuration
  • Build any Servers or Client containers used for traffic generation and validation
  • Build the Automation & Telemetry stack and apply the relevant labs configuration (Ansible variables, Playbooks, Grafana Dashboards, etc.)

The aim here is to let the Automation & Telemetry stack configure, verify and monitor the particular labs setup to allow you to learn and tinker around with network automation concepts and products against a variety of network setups.

I've also tried to stay away from Containerlab/Vendor Kinds which are VM's. While nested VMs are supported in WSL2 with some magic from the Containerlab team & others (https://github.com./srl-labs/WSL-Containerlab), I'm just trying to keep things nice and simple here.

Specs

Testing is done on my personal laptop, which is a:

  • Dell XPS 15 9530 with 32Gb of RAM
  • Running Windows 11
  • WSL2 installed
  • Default Ubuntu WSL2 image
  • Containerlab 0.60.1

Should hopefully work on a local/cloud Linux server as well. Let me know if you run into issues.

If Arista comes out with a docker image you don't need to register to get, I'll start learning Github codespaces :)

Setup Instructions

  • Follow the Containerlab installation instructions at https://containerlab.dev/install/ for your relevant distribution
  • Copy or clone this repo to a directory of your choosing
  • Run the setup.sh script which will build the included containers (cc-ansible-core, cc-bird, etc.) and pull the vendor ones

Alert: The Arista image you'll need to download off the Arista website and install yourself (steps below)

Grab cEOS64-lab-4.28.10.1M.tar from https://www.arista.com/en/support/software-download (Signup required)
Copy file onto your docker-ce host and then run the below command:
sudo docker import cEOS64-lab-4.28.10.1M.tar ceos:4.28.10.1M

Usage

  • See the README.md in the particular labs folder to see more details about a specific lab and how to build and use it

Design Detail

Refer to the below diagram

TBD