If you want (or in my case have too) test some stuff with SLES and network equipment, you just can add a SLES container to your ContainerLab lab:

name: suse-lab

topology:
    nodes:
       suse:
         image: registry.suse.com/suse/sle15:latest
         kind: linux

One clab deploy later and you can access your SLES container:

root@clab:~/suse-lab# docker exec -ti clab-suse-suse bash
suse:/ # uname -a
Linux suse 6.1.0-40-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.153-1 (2025-09-20) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last week I talked about ContainerLab at our admin meetup in Berlin.

Containerlab provides a CLI for orchestrating and managing container-based networking labs. It starts the containers, builds a virtual wiring between them to create lab topologies of users choice and manages labs lifecycle.

As allways the presentation was streamed and recorded.

Talk was in German, slides are in English:

• Recording
• Slides