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Arista has recently released a cEOS ARM64-based container image. This post will guide you through the process of downloading and importing the container image for Containerlab on macOS. Prerequisite Containerlab with macOS on Apple Silicon macOS Point your web browser to the Arista Software Download page. Log in with your Arista credentials. Click the cEOSarm-lab-4.33.1-EFT3.tar.xz file link to download. Save the cEOSarm-lab-4.33.1-EFT3.tar.xz file to your Downloads folder. Open your favorite terminal emulator, and change to the Downloads directory....

The content in this post is intended for educational and informational purposes only. All software rights belong to their respective owners. Cisco recently made the IOS on Linux (IOL) images available through the Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) Free Tier . IOL is an implementation of Cisco IOS-XE that operates as an executable binary on Linux. This post will guide you through the process of creating Cisco IOL container images using Containerlab on macOS....

Containerlab is rapidly emerging as a viable solution on macOS, thanks to the increasing availability of ARM64-based NOS container images. The following Containerlab kinds work excellent with macOS on Apple Silicon: Nokia SR Linux Arista cEOS Cisco IOL with Rosetta Prerequisites Mac computer with Apple silicon macOS 13.0 or later Git Steps Download OrbStack and open it. Open your favorite terminal emulator. We will work from the command line for the following steps....