Blog Posts in December 2025
netlab as the Universal Configuration Translator
Dan Partelly, a heavy netlab user (and an active contributor), sent me this interesting perspective on how one might want to use netlab without ever building a lab with it. All I added was a bit of AI-assisted editing; my comments are on a grey background.
In all podcasts and interviews I listened to, netlab was referred to as a “lab management solution”. But this is misleading. It’s also a translator, due to its ability to abstract devices, and can easily generate perfectly usable configs for devices or technologies you have never worked on.