Deploy a virtual VOLTHA POD¶

A guide to install a virtual POD. This is generally used to gain familiarity with the environment or to do development.

Quickstart¶

Requires:

docker and go installed on your machine
kind-voltha cloned on your machine

TYPE=minimal WITH_RADIUS=y CONFIG_SADIS=y ONLY_ONE=y WITH_BBSIM=y ./voltha up

TLDR;¶

Below are the complete steps to install a physical cluster. Most of the steps are the same as Deploy a physical VOLTHA POD.

Create Kubernetes Cluster¶

Kind provides a command line control tool to easily create Kubernetes clusters using just a basic Docker environment. The following commands will create the desired deployment of Kubernetes and then configure your local copy of kubectl to connect to this cluster.

kind create cluster --name=voltha-$TYPE --config $TYPE-cluster.cfg
export KUBECONFIG="$(kind get kubeconfig-path --name="voltha-$TYPE")"
kubectl cluster-info

Initialize Helm¶

Helm provide a capability to install and manage Kubernetes applications. VOLTHA’s default deployment mechanism utilized Helm. Before Helm can be used to deploy VOLTHA it must be initialized and the repositories that container the artifacts required to deploy VOLTHA must be added to Helm.

# Initialize Helm and add the required chart repositories
helm init
helm repo add incubator https://kubernetes-charts-incubator.storage.googleapis.com
helm repo add stable https://kubernetes-charts.storage.googleapis.com
helm repo add onf https://charts.opencord.org
helm repo update

# Create and k8s service account so that Helm can create pods
kubectl create serviceaccount --namespace kube-system tiller
kubectl create clusterrolebinding tiller-cluster-rule --clusterrole=cluster-admin --serviceaccount=kube-system:tiller
kubectl patch deploy --namespace kube-system tiller-deploy -p '{"spec":{"template":{"spec":{"serviceAccount":"tiller"}}}}'

From this point follow the physical VOLTHA POD installation instructions. Come back here once done.

Install BBSIM (Broad Band OLT/ONU Simulator)¶

BBSIM provides a simulation of a BB device. It can be useful for testing.

helm install -f minimal-values.yaml --namespace voltha --name bbsim onf/bbsim

Create BBSIM Device¶

voltctl device create -t openolt -H $(kubectl get -n voltha service/bbsim -o go-template='{{.spec.clusterIP}}'):50060

Enable BBSIM Device¶

voltctl device enable $(voltctl device list --filter Type~openolt -q)