netclab

Network labs on Kubernetes, and the tooling that configures them.

Run a lab

• netclab-chart
  Helm chart that runs routers, hosts and traffic generators as pods — cEOS, SR Linux, FRR, ixia-c — cabled together with Multus. You describe a topology; it becomes a running network.
  Helm repository Source

Configure the lab

• netclab-xp start here
  Crossplane package that turns router configuration into Kubernetes resources — from a single interface up to a whole fabric, over RESTCONF, JSON-RPC or eAPI.
  Documentation Source

Underneath

Crossplane functions that netclab-xp builds on. You do not install these directly — it pulls them in.

• function-avd
  Expands one fabric design into per-device Arista configs with pyavd, pushes them over eAPI, and reclaims on-box drift every reconcile.
  Source
• function-eapi
  Turns EOS CLI configuration into resources applied to devices over JSON-RPC.
  Source

Reading

• Slides
  Two decks: the eos and mid layers resource by resource, and the fabric layer — one AVD design becoming a configuration for every switch in it.
  Slides