Multi-Platform NFV SDK Demo

Showing the end-to-end workflow from descriptor generation, creating a project and packaging it, to on-boarding it to OSM (or possible Tango) and running the uploaded service on the vim-emu emulator.

Example service: Simple video streaming network service (OSM files)

Watch the full video of the demo here: https://youtu.be/Rnj2hNq8N1g

Cite this work

If you use this demo, please cite our work:

Stefan Schneider, Manuel Peuster, Wouter Tavernier, Holger Karl: "A Fully Integrated Multi-Platform NFV SDK". IEEE Conference on Network Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Verona, Italy (2018)

Installation

• Descriptor generator
  • git clone https://github.com/sonata-nfv/tng-sdk-descriptorgen.git
• Project:
  • pip install git+https://github.com/sonata-nfv/tng-sdk-project.git
  • Setup the workspace: tng-wks
• Packager:
  • pip install git+https://github.com/sonata-nfv/tng-sdk-package.git
• OSM client installation and configuration: See wiki
• VIM emulator vim-emu: See manual installation on OSM website
• Install VNFs: ./build.sh inside the vnfs directory of this project

Demo steps

1. Generate OSM descriptors using tng-sdk-descriptorgen and download the generated descriptors with project.yaml (GUI)
2. Unzip the downloaded descriptors.zip and check the generated project with tng-prj -p descriptors --status (CLI)
3. Package the project with tng-pkg -p descriptors (CLI)
4. Upload the package to OSM (or theoretically to 5GTANGO)
5. Unpackage the package and trigger OSM instantiate (GUI?)
6. Run the service on the emulator and show the running service on the emulator's dashboard (GUI)
7. Show the streamed video (CatTube on Cromium browser)