+ 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)
+ 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
+ docker_name = vnfd.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
+ vnfi = target_dc.startCompute(GK.get_next_vnf_name(), image=docker_name, flavor_name="small")
+ # 6. store references to the compute objects in self.instances
+ return vnfi
+