Local Control Plane

In each local agent, the control plane is responsible for programmability, i.e., changing the behaviour of the data plane at run-time.

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• Local Control Plane
  • Guide
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Usage
    • Display help
    • Execute
  • Extra

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Guide

See the Swagger Schema for more details about the REST endpoints and relative formats and requirements of request and response.

Installation

1. Prerequisite

   • python3
   • pip3

2. Clone the repository.

   git clone https://gitlab.com/guard-repositories/lcp.git
   cd lcp

3. Install the dependencies (optional).

   pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

The configurations are stored in the config.ini file.

Section	Setting	Default value	Note
local-control-plane	host	0.0.0.0	IP address to accept requests.
local-control-plane	port	4000	TCP port to accept requests.
auth	max-ttl	10min	Maximum TTL of the authorization with the CB-Manager.
polycube	host	localhost	IP address to contact the polycube installation.
polycube	port	9000	Port address to contact the polycube installation.
polycube	timeout	20s	Timeout for the connection to polycube.
dev	username	lcp	Username for HTTP authentication (for developer use).
dev	password		Password for HTTP authentication (for developer use).

Usage

Display help

python3 main.py -h

Execute

python3 main.py

Extra

See the Issues for features in development.