Issue with Arista version in quickstart topology

[james-m-henderson]

I went through the quickstart guide and have noted a couple of issues.

The most significant is that the suggested version of Arista (4.25.0F) is not present on the Arista website for download. The closest I could find was 4.25.11M.

After downloading this version and running, containerlab seemed to hang indefinitely after doing containerlab deploy.

I noticed that while the docker VMs were up, if I try to use the Cli command on Arista, it doesn't work:

jmh@the-pot:~/clab-quickstart$ docker exec -it clab-srlceos01-ceos bash
bash-4.2# exit
jmh@the-pot:~/clab-quickstart$ docker exec -it clab-srlceos01-ceos Cli
OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: unable to start container process: exec: "Cli": executable file not found in $PATH: unknown

In order to fix, I tried downloading the latest available Arista image, 4.32.0F. This works without flaw, topology starts up and the above Cli command works.

There was one other small flaw I noticed. The command given to connect to the srl container is wrong.

It is listed as:

docker exec -it clab-srlceos01-srl1 bash

It should be:

docker exec -it clab-srlceos01-srl bash

[james-m-henderson]

Here is the topology file with the "good" version activated and the "bad" version commented out:

# topology documentation: http://containerlab.dev/lab-examples/srl-ceos/
name: srlceos01

topology:
  nodes:
    srl:
      kind: nokia_srlinux
      image: ghcr.io/nokia/srlinux
    ceos:
      kind: arista_ceos
      image: ceos:4.32.0F
      #image: ceos:4.25.11M

  links:
    - endpoints: ["srl:e1-1", "ceos:eth1"]

[hellt]

thanks @james-m-henderson
do you want to raise a PR with those fixes and get into the prestigious contributors ranks? =)

thank you!

[james-m-henderson]

Hi Roman, I already started on one, but I wanted to know if I should update all arista lab examples and docs as well? In addition some are on a different version, which I haven’t tested yet. Would it make sense to just standardize on the newest? Thanks, James

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[hellt]

Feel free to update all of them to the version you tested. We don't have sophisticated labs that exercise advanced platform features, so you can safely bump them all to the 4.32.0F

[james-m-henderson]

#2034

I have to checkout for the day, and I haven't yet installed all the test dependencies into my lab, so I haven't done full regression yet. However I did run the updated .yml files and it seems everything is OK.