containerlab is the engine under NetPilot labs, and the NetPilot team sends work back upstream.
Each item below is merged in srl-labs/containerlab and links to its pull request.
Runs MikroTik RouterOS CHR from the official mikrotik/chr image, unmodified, on amd64 and arm64, with or without KVM. Management is transparent: the node's management address is RouterOS's own ether1 address, so SSH, REST, Winbox, the API, SNMP and LLDP reach the router directly.
Merged 2026-10-22. Released in containerlab v0.82.0.
Topology links for the Dell OS10 kind can use the interface names as OS10 prints them, such as ethernet1/1/1, and the deploy error now names the accepted forms instead of an empty pattern. It fixes containerlab issue #3352, which came out of bringing OS10 onto NetPilot.
Merged 2026-08-25. Released in containerlab v0.80.0.
Adds our write-up of the lessons from running a multi-vendor lineup on containerlab to the project's community page: image naming, readiness checks, interface aliases, first-boot dialogs and per-kind resources.
Merged 2026-08-25. Live on containerlab.dev.
NetPilot is a containerlab integrator. A lab the agent builds on a lab VM is a containerlab topology, deployed by containerlab with real network OSes. NetPilot adds the hosting and the AI agent, and engineers verify the result on the real CLI.
Run containerlab in the cloudNetPilot and the containerlab project
Describe the network. The agent writes the YAML and the configs, deploys, and you verify on the real CLI.