Arista vEOS#
Arista vEOS virtualized router is identified with vr-veos
or vr-arista_veos
kind in the topology file. It is built using vrnetlab project and essentially is a Qemu VM packaged in a docker container format.
vr-veos nodes launched with containerlab comes up pre-provisioned with SSH, SNMP, NETCONF and gNMI services enabled.
Managing vr-veos nodes#
Note
Containers with vEOS inside will take ~4min to fully boot.
You can monitor the progress with docker logs -f <container-name>
.
Arista vEOS node launched with containerlab can be managed via the following interfaces:
using the best in class gnmic gNMI client as an example:
Note, gNMI service runs over 6030 port.Info
Default user credentials: admin:admin
Interfaces mapping#
vr-veos container can have up to 144 interfaces and uses the following mapping rules:
eth0
- management interface connected to the containerlab management networketh1
- first data interface, mapped to first data port of vEOS line cardeth2+
- second and subsequent data interface
When containerlab launches vr-veos node, it will assign IPv4/6 address to the eth0
interface. These addresses can be used to reach management plane of the router.
Data interfaces eth1+
needs to be configured with IP addressing manually using CLI/management protocols.
Features and options#
Node configuration#
vr-veos nodes come up with a basic configuration where only the control plane and line cards are provisioned, as well as the admin
user and management interfaces such as NETCONF, SNMP, gNMI.
Startup configuration#
It is possible to make vEOS nodes boot up with a user-defined startup-config instead of a built-in one. With a startup-config
property of the node/kind user sets the path to the config file that will be mounted to a container and used as a startup-config:
With this knob containerlab is instructed to take a file myconfig.txt
from the directory that hosts the topology file, and copy it to the lab directory for that specific node under the /config/startup-config.cfg
name. Then the directory that hosts the startup-config dir is mounted to the container. This will result in this config being applied at startup by the node.
Configuration is applied after the node is started, thus it can contain partial configuration snippets that you desire to add on top of the default config that a node boots up with.