vpp-dataplane/test/scripts

Testing Calico/VPP on baremetal

This setup creates a single node setup leveraging DPDK.

• ⚠️ This is a test script, not to be used for production
• ⚠️ It will reconfigure the uplink interface, here enp216s0f1 do not use your management interface or you will most probably loose access to your server.

Install kubernetes

sudo apt update
sudo apt install kubelet kubeadm kubectl containerd

Preparing the cluster

sudo sysctl -w vm.nr_hugepages=4096
sudo swapoff -a
# Load PCI drivers, often but not always required
sudo modprobe uio_pci_generic
sudo modprobe vfio-pci
# Reset previous installations
sudo kubeadm reset -f
sudo rm -rf /etc/cni/net.d/

echo "
K8_VERSION=v1.31.0
POD_CIDR=11.0.0.0/16
SERVICE_CIDR=11.96.0.0/16
MAIN_IP=20.0.0.1/24
MAIN_INTERFACE_NAME=enp216s0f1
DNS_TYPE=CoreDNS
VERBOSE=false
" > v4.1node.conf
$HOME/vpp-dataplane/test/scripts/vppdev.sh orch up

Install the tigera operator

kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/projectcalico/calico/master/manifests/tigera-operator.yaml

Install Calico/VPP

# ---------------- images ----------------
export CALICO_AGENT_IMAGE=calicovpp/agent:v3.26.0
export CALICO_VPP_IMAGE=calicovpp/vpp:v3.26.0
export MULTINET_MONITOR_IMAGE=calicovpp/multinet-monitor:v3.26.0
export IMAGE_PULL_POLICY=IfNotPresent

# ---------------- interfaces ----------------
export CALICOVPP_INTERFACES='{
  "uplinkInterfaces": [
    {
      "interfaceName": "enp216s0f1",
      "vppDriver": "dpdk"
    }
  ]
}'

export CALICOVPP_ENABLE_MEMIF=true
export CALICOVPP_ENABLE_VCL=true
export CALICO_ENCAPSULATION=IPIP # VXLAN IPIP None
export CALICO_NAT_OUTGOING=Enabled

export CALICOVPP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE="unix {
  nodaemon
  full-coredump
  log /var/run/vpp/vpp.log
  cli-listen /var/run/vpp/cli.sock
  pidfile /run/vpp/vpp.pid
}
cpu {
  main-core 1
  workers 0
}
api-trace { on }
session { event-queue-length 100000 }
socksvr { socket-name /var/run/vpp/vpp-api.sock }
buffers { buffers-per-numa 131072 }
cnat {
  translation-db-memory 50M
  translation-db-buckets 1024
  session-db-memory 20G
  session-db-buckets 4096
  snat-db-memory 1M
  snat-db-buckets 1024
  session-cleanup-timeout 0.1
}
plugins {
    plugin default { enable }
    plugin calico_plugin.so { enable }
    plugin dpdk_plugin.so { disable }
}
"
$HOME/vpp-dataplane/yaml/overlays/dev/kustomize.sh up