Launching a virtual network topology

You can use a containerlab binary to deploy the test topology. For convenience, we included a couple of make targets that you can use:

• make lab-base to create the base topology used in Chapters 6 through 8
• make lab-full to create the full topology used in Chapters 9 and 10

Here’s an example of how you can create the base topology from inside the test VM:

fedora@testbed network-automation-with-go$ make lab-base
...
+---+-----------------+--------------+--------------
| # | Name            | Container ID | Image
+---+-----------------+--------------+--------------
| 1 | clab-netgo-ceos | fe422727f351 | ceos:4.28.0F
| 2 | clab-netgo-cvx  | 85e5b9135e1b | cx:5.0.0
| 3 | clab-netgo-srl  | 00106bef1d4e |srlinux:21.6.4
+---+-----------------+--------------+--------------

You now have clab-netgo-ceos, clab-netgo-cvx and clab-netgo-srl routers...