On Thursday, October 26th, 2023 I co-presented a talk at NetDevOps Days NYC along with Jerrod Gerth at Nokia. Blurb Test it first! Taking a DevOps approach to network labs. Abstract This joint talk from IP Fabric and Nokia will cover the “why” and “how” of building software-based network labs suitable for learning, testing, and validating changes. It will include discussion of: Theory: Why are network labs needed? A discussion of network simulation options and the use cases it can solve Real world: How to use Containerlab for network labs Presentation Presentation-as-code generated via marp and stored in GitLab: netdevops-days-2023-10