Containerlab on macOS - containerlab

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Containerlab on macOS - containerlab

Containerlab deploys docker based meshed lab topologies

https://containerlab.dev/macos/

[addiekaul]

I'd like to provide information on Juniper cRPD which has been availble for Arm64 since Dec 2022, please find links Juniper cRPD Arm64 pre-requisites and also links for downloading cRPD, I have been using cRPD Arm version with containerlabs since couple of years without any issues, appreciate if you can update the wiki for macOS documentation.

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/crpd/crpd-deployment/topics/concept/crr-system-requirement-docker.html
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/release-notes/21.4/junos-release-notes-21.4r1/topics/new-features/feature-descriptions/additional-features-7.html

https://support.juniper.net/support/downloads/?p=crpd
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/quick-start/software/crpd/crpd-quick-start/topics/concept/step-1-crpd.html

[hellt]

good call, I added a note about control-plane only cRPD option for arm64
it will be rendered with the next clab release

[PanWYao]

Just can't download the image..

[isenwulf]

I'm trying to get Docker outside of Docker working and I'm running into problems with the bind mounts. Specifically, /run/docker/netns, /var/lib/docker, etc. don't exist on my Mac. Using OrbStack to run Docker if that makes a difference.

[isenwulf]

Here's my devcontainer.json:

{
    "image": "ghcr.io/srl-labs/containerlab/devcontainer-dood-slim:latest", 
    "runArgs": [
        "--network=host",
        "--pid=host",
        "--privileged"
    ],
    "mounts": [
        "type=bind,src=/run/docker/netns,dst=/run/docker/netns",
        "type=bind,src=/var/lib/docker,dst=/var/lib/docker",
        "type=bind,src=/lib/modules,dst=/lib/modules"
    ],
    "workspaceFolder": "${localWorkspaceFolder}",
    "workspaceMount": "source=${localWorkspaceFolder},target=${localWorkspaceFolder},type=bind"
}

Trying to start the container from VSCode with Dev Containers: Rebuild and Reopen in Container.

And what orb machine os are you using? Did you install docker in it?

I'm using the default VM that Orb creates when it first runs for handling Docker. Do I need to make a separate VM under Linux > Machines in Orb?

For reference here's the exact error message:

docker: Error response from daemon: invalid mount config for type "bind": bind source path does not exist: /run/docker/netns.

[isenwulf]

Oh, it looks like you deleted the netns mount in your latest commits for your example labs. I deleted that line and I'm able to build a dev container instance. I guess we don't need that?

[hellt]

Correct. Instead of the latest tag use 0.61.0

[sjurtf]

I'm also having the same issue when using DOOD. I've tried versions 0.61.0, and also 0.60.0 but with the same outcome.

MacOS 14.7
Docker Desktop 4.37.2 (latest)

Status 400: invalid mount config for type \"bind\": bind source path does not exist: /run/docker/netns

[UchihaItachiSama]

I'm also having the same issue when using DOOD. I've tried versions 0.61.0, and also 0.60.0 but with the same outcome.

MacOS 14.7 Docker Desktop 4.37.2 (latest)

Status 400: invalid mount config for type \"bind\": bind source path does not exist: /run/docker/netns

I was seeing the issue on dood-slim 0.60.1, after updating the version to use 0.63.3 it seems to work without any issues

[manugeo4]

Can we get support for apple container instead of docker. More details about apple container below.
https://github.com/apple/container
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/346/

[nunomcruz]

I managed to run srlinux, arista and Mikrotik using vrnetlab on macOS 26.3 running on a M2 Max using Orbstack with a VM as per instructions. For Mikrotik I've used the VDI (arm64) image, converted it to vmdk using vbox-img tool from virtual box and using that image in vrnetlab. It worked surprisingly well!