Summary

The Appendix A of this book is your hands-on guide to setting up and managing a network observability lab environment. Here’s what we covered:

• Setting up the lab: Clear instructions on using containerlab and Docker, with both manual and automated provisioning on DigitalOcean
• Forking the repository: Easy steps to create your own version of a project for experimenting
• Installing dependencies: How to install Docker, containerlab, and netobs and set up configuration files
• Downloading Arista cEOS images: A guide to getting necessary network device images from Arista’s website
• Preparing Nautobot: Instructions to integrate Nautobot with network topology data
• Interacting with lab scenarios: Manage and interact with network devices and observability components using SSH, web interfaces, and APIs
• Removing the lab environment: Commands to safely tear down the lab setup and tips to back up data
• Managing lab scenarios: An overview of provided...