Intent based VNF descriptor compiler for ODL

This project started as a fork of https://gitgub.com/telefonicaid/vibnemo . It contains all the development files to implement a compiler for Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) based on the IETF draft on High-level VND Descriptors using NEMO .

Prerequisites

• Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
  • Memory: 4GB
  • Storage: 10GB
• Java 1.8

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
  sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
  

• Apache Maven 3.5.4

  sudo apt-get install maven
  

• Python 3.6

Installation

• Set M2_HOME

  sudo vim /etc/profile.d/apache-maven.sh
  

  export M2_HOME=/home/mami
  export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
  

• Create .m2 folder

  cd /home/mami
  mkdir .m2
  

• Create settings.xml file

  cd /home/mami/.m2
  touch settings.xml
  cp -n $M2_HOME/.m2/settings.xml{,.orig} ; \wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/opendaylight/odlparent/master/settings.xml > $M2_HOME/.m2/settings.xml
  

• Clone the project

  cd /home/mami
  git clone https://github.com/mami-project/nemo.git
  

• Compile the project

  cd /home/mami
  mvn clean install -DskipTests
  

• Run karaf

  cd /home/mami/nemo/nemo-karaf/target/assembly/bin
  ./karaf
  

• If [ERROR] Failed to construct terminal

  logout
  

  export TERM=xterm-color
  ./karaf
  

• Install features

  feature:install odl-nemo-api odl-nemo-engine odl-nemo-engine-rest
  

Demo

• Move to demo folder

  cd /home/mami/nemo/demo
  

• Modify vlc_vnfd and vlc_vnfd_2 path in the intent.txt file

  file:///{PATH}/nemo/demo/vlc_vnf.yaml
  

• Run demo

  python3 config.py
  python3 demo.py --intent intent.txt --instance video --style osm
  

• video_vnfd.yaml has been generated