# Sunsetting netlab Vagrant/libvirt provider

DevFeed: [Sunsetting netlab Vagrant/libvirt provider](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sunsetting-netlab-vagrant-libvirt-provider-34925.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ipspace.net/2026/09/sunsetting-vagrant-libvirt/>)

Published: 2026-09-17T05:51:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ipSpace.net blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ipspace-net-blog.md>)

Topics: [Vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vagrant.md>), [Infrastructure as code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [Orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/orchestration.md>), [Containerlab topology](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clab-topo.md>), [Oracle-VM-VirtualBox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vm-box.md>)

Tags: [change](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/change.md>), [containers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/containers.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [netlab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/netlab.md>), [orchestration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orchestration.md>), [vagrant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vagrant.md>), [virtualbox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/virtualbox.md>)

## AI overview

The netlab project is sunsetting its Vagrant/libvirt provider after the vagrant-libvirt plugin became effectively unmaintained and HashiCorp announced the closure of Vagrant Cloud by the end of 2026. Existing support and tests will remain for now, but no new libvirt features or device integration tests are planned; containerlab will become the primary orchestration path.

## Source excerpt

When I started the netlab project, Vagrant was the go-to tool if you wanted to build a virtual environment described in a text configuration file (an idea popularized as infrastructure-as-code). It wasn't ideal for what we were doing, but a tool rarely does a great job when used far away from its intended use case. netlab initially supported Vagrant with VirtualBox, quickly adding support for KVM/libvirt through the vagrant-libvirt plugin. Life was good... until it wasn't. Read more ...