# son-emu
This is the repository of [SONATA's](http://sonata-nfv.eu) emulation platform.
-This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test complete network service chains in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the direct execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the network service developer's machine.
+This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test complete network service chains in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the network service developer's machine.
### Cite this work
If you use son-emu for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:
-* Manuel Peuster, Holger Karl, and Steven van Rossem. "**MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments.**" to appear in IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV-SDN), 2016.
- * Pre-print online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05995
+* M. Peuster, H. Karl and S. van Rossem, **"MeDICINE: Rapid prototyping of production-ready network services in multi-PoP environments,"** 2016 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 2016, pp. 148-153.
+doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490
+ * Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919490/
+ * Pre-print: http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.05995
A short demo that showcases son-emu together with its dummy gatekeeper is available [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZANz97pV9ao).
* `emuvim` Emulator components
* `api` API endpoint implementations
* `rest` REST API for son-emu-cli
- * `sonata` Dummy gatekeeper API
+ * `sonata` Dummy gatekeeper API
+ * `openstack` OpenStack-like APIs for MANO integration
* `cli` Command line client to control the emulator
+ * `dashboard` A web-based dashboard to display the emulator's state
* `dcemulator` Emulator core
* `resourcemodel` Resource limitation models
- * `examples` Example topology scripts
- * `test` Test scripts
+ * `examples` Example topology scripts
+ * `test` Test scripts
* `utils` Helper scripts for SONATA's CI/CD setup
4. Follow/answer related [issues](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/issues) (see Feedback-Chanel, below).
## Installation
-There are two ways to install and use son-emu. The simple one is to use Vagrant to create a VirtualBox-based VM on you machine that contains the pre-installed and configured emulator. The more complicated installation requires a freshly installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and is done by a ansible playbook.
+There are two ways to install and use son-emu. The simple one is to use Vagrant to create a VirtualBox-based VM on your machine that contains the pre-installed and configured emulator. The more complicated installation requires a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and is done by a ansible playbook.
### Vagrant Installation
### Ansible Installation
-* Requires: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
+* Requires: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
* `sudo apt-get install ansible git aptitude`
* `sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts`
* Add: `localhost ansible_connection=local`
## Usage
### Examples
-#### Manual Usage Example:
This simple example shows how to start the emulator with a simple topology (terminal 1) and how to start (terminal 2) some empty VNF containers in the emulated datacenters (PoPs) by using the son-emu-cli.
* `containernet> vnf1 ifconfig`
* `containernet> vnf1 ping -c 2 vnf2`
-#### Dummy Gatekeeper Example:
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-This example shows how to deploy a SONATA example package in the emulator using the dummy gatekeeper.
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-* First terminal (start the emulation platform):
- * `sudo python src/emuvim/examples/sonata_y1_demo_topology_1.py`
-* Second terminal (deploy the example package):
- * Upload: `curl -i -X POST -F package=@sonata-demo-docker.son http://127.0.0.1:5000/packages`
- * Instantiate: `curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:5000/instantiations -d "{}"`
- * Verify that service runs: `son-emu-cli compute list`
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-Note: The [son-push](https://github.com/mpeuster/son-cli) tool can be used instead of CURL.
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### Further Documentation
* [Full CLI command documentation](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/CLI-Command-Overview)
* [Requirements for Docker containers executed by the emulator](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/Container-Requirements)
+* [REST API](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/REST-API-command-overview)
## License
* Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei (https://github.com/hadik3r)
* Wouter Tavernier (https://github.com/wtaverni)
* Geoffroy Chollon (https://github.com/cgeoffroy)
+* Eduard Maas (https://github.com/edmaas)
#### Feedback-Chanel