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Term Description
Antimony Antimony is a chemical element. It has symbol Sb and atomic number 51. A lustrous grey metal or metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite. Antimony compounds have been known since ancient times and were powdered for use as medicine and cosmetics.
Containerlab Containerlab is a CLI-based toolkit to emulate network topologies by deploying their nodes as containers.
Clabernetes Clabernetes is another CLI-based tool that deploys Containerlab topologies into Kubernetes clusters.
Topology A topology is a file containing a Containerlab topology definition](https://containerlab.dev/manual/topo-def-file/). Topologies can be created and edited in Antimony’s editor.
Lab A lab is a deployed instance of a topology. A lab can be deployed, rescheduled and stopped in Antimony’s dashboard.