FD.IO

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description
3. Setup
4. Usage
5. Reference
6. Limitations
7. Development
8. Release Notes/Contributors

Overview

Puppet module that installs and configures [FD.IO][7].

Module Description

Deploys FD.IO to various OSs via package.

All configuration should be handled through the Puppet module's params.

Setup

• Installs VPP and Honeycomb
• Assumes pre-exiting DPDK bindings
• Configures VPP's startup.conf
• Ensures services are running

Usage

The most basic usage, passing no parameters to the fdio class, will install and start vpp and honeycomb with a default configuration.

class { 'fdio':
}

Ports

To change the port vpp listens use the vpp_port param.

class { 'fdio':
  vpp_port => '5002',
}

Set uio-driver

To set the uio-driver use the dpdk_pmd_driver param.

class { 'fdio':
  dpdk_pmd_driver => 'vfio_pci',
}

Reference

Classes

Public classes

• ::fdio: Main entry point to the module.

Private classes

• ::fdio::params: Contains default class param values.
• ::fdio::install: Installs VPP and Honeycomb from packages.
• ::fdio::config: Manages vpp config
• ::fdio::service: Starts the services.

::fdio

Parameters

vpp_port

Sets the VPP port.

Default: 8080

Valid options: A valid port number for VPP to listen on.

dpdk_pmd_driver

Sets the uio-driver for vpp

Default: uio_pci_generic

Valid options: Driver names are specifed as strings.

Limitations

• Tested on CentOS 7.

Development

We welcome contributions and work to make them easy!

TODO

Release Notes/Contributors

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