Oops, we did it again 🤗 Three years ago, we shook up the networking space with the release of a freely available SR Linux container image. This was a catalyst for many great community projects, such as Containerlab, gNMIc, and many others. Today, we are announcing the availability of an ARM64 version* of the SR Linux container image 🎉 Free, public, ARM64 native. * - preview version. With ARM64 version of our container image, you can finally make your expensive typing machines with a fruit logo to do some actual work by running a networking lab. There are so many things to I wanted to explain and show you, so I went and recorded a 40 minutes deep dive on the topics of - Who can be interested in running labs on ARM64 arch? - What challenges are ahead of us when ARM64 is the target architecture? - What Network OSes can you run on it? - How docker runs on macOS? - What tools would I recommend using? - And how I run containerlabs on macOS. You will find a link to the YT video in the comments. If you are in or adjacent to networking, this might be quite an entertaining show and hopefully this would make netorking labs even more accessible to the community 🚀

🫡You all asked for this. Our expensive typing machines with a fruit logo can do better than connecting with SSH to Linux machines whenever we want to run networking labs. Soon it will be way way better. And we will continue to push, because we are with you in the same boat 🤜🤛

SR Linux CLI is one of the best Network OS CLIs and the team and myself personally work on improving it constantly. I will write a blog post about the Extended Ranges Syntax, but (as a teaser) check that. Imagine you're dealing with a route table with many routes (pic #1) and you want to focus just on a subset of the output. The extended ranges syntax allows you to use the shell-like globbing to filter on the prefix 😱 (see pic #2)

So many things are in motion, and it is only February, captain. Nevertheless, @carlrmontanari and I are working hard to scale out containerlab without sacrificing the user experience. It is still the early days of @clabernetes, but we have achieved a lot and will have lots to share very, very soon! For now, give @clabernetes a follow and bookmark in your browsers this -> c9s.run and watch this space. We are here to stay 🤓

You guys went ballistic about the Wireshark integration with @go_containerlab. But yesterday, it was me going 👀🤯 when I learned about the open-source project that delivers a Web UI for packet captures -- Edgeshark. Here are 12 minutes to blow your mind. youtube.com/watch?v=iY90a_Gn…

Since we added a blog post showing how we leveraged @ansible URI module with SR Linux, it was evident that users would only let us go if we developed a real module for it. And so we did. I am happy to get this task off of my shoulders by releasing nokia.srlinux collection 🧵👇