Abstract
Containerlab turns 6 this year - with over half a million installs, a rich ecosystem, plenty of write-ups, blogposts and repositories using it, it has become a popular project for creating virtual network topologies.
This talks is not aimed at presenting the tool itself, but rather the development process, and what worked for the project, what did not, and what challenges we faced while developing and maintaining a tool that has to support traditionally closed-source software and engage with a non-software developer userbase.
Recording
Video will be added soon.
Speaker
Gordon Gidofalvy
Gordon has been part of the networking community ever since he started working, working both as a network operator and as of now, as a Consulting Systems Engineer at Nokia, focusing on data center networks. In his free time, he volunteers in the network teams of conferences and camps and is one of the maintainers of Containerlab. He joined the Containerlab team in late 2024 and has since contributed features and fixes to the project and supported the overall community.
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