+ def start_service(self):
+ """
+ This methods creates and starts a new service instance.
+ It computes placements, iterates over all VNFDs, and starts
+ each VNFD as a Docker container in the data center selected
+ by the placement algorithm.
+ :return:
+ """
+ LOG.info("Starting service %r" % self.uuid)
+
+ # 1. each service instance gets a new uuid to identify it
+ instance_uuid = str(uuid.uuid4())
+ # build a instances dict (a bit like a NSR :))
+ self.instances[instance_uuid] = dict()
+ self.instances[instance_uuid]["vnf_instances"] = list()
+
+ # 2. compute placement of this service instance (adds DC names to VNFDs)
+ if not GK_STANDALONE_MODE:
+ self._calculate_placement(FirstDcPlacement)
+ # iterate over all vnfds that we have to start
+ for vnfd in self.vnfds.itervalues():
+ vnfi = None
+ if not GK_STANDALONE_MODE:
+ vnfi = self._start_vnfd(vnfd)
+ self.instances[instance_uuid]["vnf_instances"].append(vnfi)
+
+ # 3. Configure the chaining of the network functions (currently only E-Line links supported)
+ vlinks = self.nsd["virtual_links"]
+ fwd_links = self.nsd["forwarding_graphs"][0]["constituent_virtual_links"]
+ eline_fwd_links = [l for l in vlinks if (l["id"] in fwd_links) and (l["connectivity_type"] == "E-Line")]
+
+ for link in eline_fwd_links:
+ src_node, src_port = link["connection_points_reference"][0].split(":")
+ dst_node, dst_port = link["connection_points_reference"][1].split(":")
+
+ if src_node in self.vnfds:
+ network = self.vnfds[src_node].get("dc").net # there should be a cleaner way to find the DCNetwork
+ network.setChain(src_node, dst_node, vnf_src_interface=src_port, vnf_dst_interface=dst_port)
+
+ LOG.info("Service started. Instance id: %r" % instance_uuid)
+ return instance_uuid
+
+ def _start_vnfd(self, vnfd):
+ """
+ Start a single VNFD of this service
+ :param vnfd: vnfd descriptor dict
+ :return:
+ """
+ # iterate over all deployment units within each VNFDs
+ for u in vnfd.get("virtual_deployment_units"):
+ # 1. get the name of the docker image to start and the assigned DC
+ vnf_name = vnfd.get("name")
+ if vnf_name not in self.remote_docker_image_urls:
+ raise Exception("No image name for %r found. Abort." % vnf_name)
+ docker_name = self.remote_docker_image_urls.get(vnf_name)
+ target_dc = vnfd.get("dc")
+ # 2. perform some checks to ensure we can start the container
+ assert(docker_name is not None)
+ assert(target_dc is not None)
+ if not self._check_docker_image_exists(docker_name):
+ raise Exception("Docker image %r not found. Abort." % docker_name)
+ # 3. do the dc.startCompute(name="foobar") call to run the container
+ # TODO consider flavors, and other annotations
+ intfs = vnfd.get("connection_points")
+ vnfi = target_dc.startCompute(GK.get_next_vnf_name(), network=intfs, image=docker_name, flavor_name="small")
+ # 6. store references to the compute objects in self.instances
+ return vnfi
+