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-# son-emu
+# Distributed Cloud Emulator
+
+Contributors:
+
+* Manuel Peuster <manuel.peuster@upb.de>
+
+
+### Requirements
+* needs the latest Dockernet to be installed in the system
+ * the wrapper uses standard Python imports to use the Dockernet modules
+* Uses ZeroMQ based RPC to open a cloud-like interface that can be used by a demo CLI client
+ * pip install import zerorpc
+ * This will be replaced / extended by a REST API later
+
+### Project structure
+* **emuvim/** all emulator code 
+ * **api/** Data center API endpoint implementations (zerorpc, OpenStack REST, ...)
+ * **cli/** CLI client to interact with a running emulator
+ * **dcemulator/** Dockernet wrapper that introduces the notion of data centers and API endpoints
+ * **test/** Unit tests
+ * **example_topology.py** An example topology script to show how topologies can be specified
+
+### Installation
+Automatic installation is provide through an Ansible playbook.
+* Requires: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
+* `sudo apt-get install ansible git`
+* `sudo vim /etc/ansible/hosts`
+* Add: `localhost ansible_connection=local`
+
+#### 1. Dockernet
+* `git clone https://github.com/mpeuster/dockernet.git`
+* `cd dockernet/ansible`
+* `sudo ansible-playbook install.yml`
+* Wait (and have a coffee) ...
+
+#### 2. Emulator
+* Fork the repository.
+* `cd`
+* `git clone https://github.com/<user>/son-emu.git`
+* `cd emulator-strawman/ansible`
+* `sudo ansible-playbook install.yml`
+
+
+### Run
+* First terminal:
+ * `cd emulator-strawman/emuvim`
+ * `sudo python example_topology.py`
+* Second terminal:
+ * `cd emulator-strawman/emuvim/cli`
+ * `./son-emu-cli compute start -d dc1 -n vnf1`
+ * `./son-emu-cli compute start -d dc1 -n vnf2`
+ * `./son-emu-cli compute list`
+* First terminal:
+ * `dockernet> vnf1 ping -c 2 vnf2`
+
+
+### TODO
+* DCemulator
+ * Advanced network model
+  * improve network management, multiple interfaces per container
+  * API to create multiple networks (per DC?)
+
+
+* Add resource constraints to datacenters
+* Check if we can use the Mininet GUI to visualize our DCs?
+* (Unit tests for zerorpc API endpoint)
+
+
+### Features / Done
+* Define a topology (Python script)
+ * Add data centers
+ * Add switches and links between the,
+* Define API endpoints in topology
+ * call startAPI from topology definition and start it in a own thread
+ * make it possible to start different API endpoints for different DCs
+* DCemulator
+ * correctly start and connect new compute resources at runtime
+ * remove and disconnect compute resources at runtime
+ * do IP management for new containers
+ * list active compute resources
+* Cloud-like reference API with CLI for demonstrations
+ * Write CLI client
+ * Start compute (name, DC, image, network)
+ * Stop compute
+* Create an Ansible-based automatic installation routine
+* Unit tests
+