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gotty attach#

Description#

The attach sub-command under the tools gotty command creates and starts a container that runs the GoTTY web terminal. GoTTY provides a browser based terminal which can be used to access your lab nodes via SSH.

Usage#

containerlab tools gotty attach [flags]

Flags#

--lab | -l#

Name of the lab to attach the GoTTY container to.

--topology | -t#

Path to the topology file (*.clab.yml) that defines the lab. This flag can be used instead of --lab.

--name#

Name of the GoTTY container. If omitted it defaults to clab-<labname>-gotty.

--port | -p#

Port for the GoTTY web interface. Default is 8080.

--username | -u#

Username used to authenticate to the GoTTY web terminal. Defaults to admin.

--password | -P#

Password used to authenticate to the GoTTY web terminal. Defaults to admin.

--shell | -s#

Shell to start inside the container. Defaults to bash.

--image | -i#

Container image used to run GoTTY. Defaults to ghcr.io/srl-labs/network-multitool.

--owner | -o#

Owner name to associate with the GoTTY container. If not provided it will be discovered automatically from environment variables.

Examples#

Attach a GoTTY container to a running lab:

 containerlab tools gotty attach -l mylab
11:40:03 INFO Pulling image ghcr.io/srl-labs/network-multitool...
11:40:03 INFO Creating GoTTY container clab-mylab-gotty on network 'clab-mylab'
11:40:04 INFO GoTTY container clab-mylab-gotty started. Waiting for GoTTY service to initialize...
11:40:09 INFO GoTTY web terminal successfully started url=http://HOST_IP:8080 username=admin password=admin

Once started, open the printed URL in a browser to access the terminal. From there you can connect to lab nodes using SSH for example:

ssh admin@clab-mylab-node1