netlab
Making virtual networking labs suck less (by ipspace)
containerlab
container-based networking labs (by srl-labs)
| netlab | containerlab | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 376 | 1,256 | |
| - | 3.5% | |
| 9.8 | 9.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| Python | Go | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
netlab
Posts with mentions or reviews of netlab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
- Netlab: Virtual Networking Labbing Tool
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Best virtual router/switch to lab vxlan?
You could also try netlab from ipsace: https://github.com/ipspace/netlab . You can construct an entire network infrastructure from a yaml file and there are examples for building an evpn/vxlan infra.
containerlab
Posts with mentions or reviews of containerlab.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
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Networking lab for learning using containers?
I also saw there's this Github project from Nokia - https://github.com/srl-labs/containerlab - which seems like a framework for setting up complex container-based network labs. However, I'm not sure if this is overkill for my use-case - also, it seems like it's geared towards network gurus, not those who are just looking to learn the basics of simple network protocols.
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Career paths into Cloud related roles?
So, if you want to break into industry, my recommendation is still, look into Kubernetes eco-system. For network labs look into container-based projects like https://containerlab.dev/. They're still new, probably you could manage to contribute to them.
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Network Lab on a Linux Box using Vagrant
Yes, much better. https://github.com/srl-labs/containerlab
What are some alternatives?
When comparing netlab and containerlab you can also consider the following projects:
hackthebox - Notes Taken for HTB Machines & InfoSec Community.
cni - Container Network Interface - networking for Linux containers
SecGen - Create randomly insecure VMs
docker - Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems [Moved to: https://github.com/moby/moby]
seed-labs - SEED Labs developed in the last 20 years.
kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
fakernet - A framework for quickly creating internet-like services for labs, exercises, and research.
Netris.ai - The Kubernetes Operator for Netris
vulnerable-apps