MikroTik Cloud Hosted Router Images in containerlab Pining for turkey and stuffing, I settled for containers and VMs instead. In the process, I've offered some advice on better use of RouterOS in containerlab.

No turkey and stuffing for me, but containers and VMs? Sure. Let's make #MikroTik #CHR images a bit friendlier for declarative #containerlab use. #RouterOS #NetEng #vrnetlab ghostinthenet.info/chr-in-conta...

Hmm. Playing with #vrnetlab and decided to redeploy the @mikrotik.social CHR using an Alpine base rather than the default Ubuntu base. Container weighs in at just over 200MB rather than close to a GB and spins up much faster. More tuning of these VM containers is definitely in the cards. #NetEng