Juniper vJunos-switch#

Juniper vJunos-switch is a virtualized EX9214 switch identified with juniper_vjunosswitch kind in the topology file. It is built using vrnetlab project and essentially is a Qemu VM packaged in a docker container format.

Juniper vJunos-switch nodes launched with containerlab come up pre-provisioned with SSH, SNMP, NETCONF and gNMI services enabled.

How to obtain the image#

The qcow2 image can be freely downloaded from the Juniper support portal without a Juniper account and built with vrnetlab.

Managing Juniper vJunos-switch nodes#

Juniper vJunos-switch node launched with containerlab can be managed via the following interfaces:

docker exec -it <container-name/id> bash

ssh admin@<container-name/id>

ssh admin@<container-name> -p 830 -s netconf

Interface naming#

You can use interfaces names in the topology file like they appear in Juniper vJunos-switch.

The interface naming convention is: et-0/0/X (or ge-0/0/X, xe-0/0/X, all are accepted), where X denotes the port number.

With that naming convention in mind:

• et-0/0/0 - first data port available
• et-0/0/1 - second data port, and so on...

The example ports above would be mapped to the following Linux interfaces inside the container running the Juniper vJunos-switch VM:

Juniper vJunosEvolved container can have up to 17 interfaces and uses the following mapping rules:

• eth0 - management interface connected to the containerlab management network
• eth1 - first data interface, mapped to a first data port of vJunosEvolved VM, which is et-0/0/0 and not et-0/0/1.
• eth2+ - second and subsequent data interface

When containerlab launches Juniper vJunos-switch node the management interface of the VM gets assigned 10.0.0.15/24 address from the QEMU DHCP server. This interface is transparently stitched with container's eth0 interface such that users can reach the management plane of the Juniper vJunos-switch using containerlab's assigned IP.

Data interfaces et-0/0/0+ need to be configured with IP addressing manually using CLI or other available management interfaces.

Features and options#

Node configuration#

Juniper vJunos-switch nodes come up with a basic configuration supplied by a mountable configuration disk to the main VM image. Users, management interfaces, and protocols such as SSH and NETCONF are configured.

Startup configuration#

It is possible to make vJunos-switch 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:

topology:
  nodes:
    node:
      kind: juniper_vjunosswitch
      startup-config: myconfig.txt

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.

Lab examples#

The following labs feature the Juniper vJunos-switch node:

• SR Linux and Juniper vJunos-switch

Known issues and limitations#

• vJunos-switch requires Linux kernel 4.17+
• To check the boot log, use docker logs -f <node-name>.