Offline Forge Lab

Everything needed for practical Network AIOps learning.

One licensed download includes the service-provider and AI-fabric labs, real protocol collectors, guided learning, and safe local investigation tools.

Included in the lab

Protocols, telemetry, investigation tools, and guided learning in one local environment.

SP Network Lab

Control-plane troubleshooting

IS-IS Level-2 with TE, MPLS/LDP, MP-BGP VPNv4, BGP-LS, BMP, Kafka, and guided provider-network incidents.

AI Fabric Lab

ECMP and inference behavior

Dual-spine eBGP fabric behavior, inference latency and loss signals, and incidents that distinguish path degradation from backend slowness.

Supported release

Platforms and resources

Forge 0.2.6 · 2026-07-26

Available platforms: macos, linux. Architectures: aarch64, x86_64.

macOS

Uses a persistent Lima VM: 4 CPUs, 6 GiB RAM, and a 20 GiB sparse disk. Forge requires at least 12 GB free disk and recommends 20 GB.

Linux

Uses Docker Engine, Docker Compose, and Linux MPLS/VRF modules. Forge requires at least 5.5 GiB RAM and 12 GB free disk.