Temporarily disable BIRD in test-bgp-router. #142

Alpine updated their Bird image to 2.0, which breaks the generated
config and makes bird behave weirdly in other ways. I need to sleep
right now, so this is a quick bandaid while I figure out a real fix.

manifests/tutorial-1.yaml

@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ metadata:
 data:
   config: |
     peers:
-    - my-asn: 64512
-      peer-asn: 64512
-      peer-address: 10.96.0.100
+    # Temporarily disabled due to bug #142
+    # - my-asn: 64512
+    #   peer-asn: 64512
+    #   peer-address: 10.96.0.100
     - my-asn: 64512
       peer-asn: 64512
       peer-address: 10.96.0.101

test-bgp-router/bird.go

@@ -4,14 +4,15 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"net"
-	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"strings"
 )
 
 func hasBird() bool {
-	_, err := os.Stat("/usr/sbin/bird")
-	return err == nil
+	// Disabled pending bug #142
+	// _, err := os.Stat("/usr/sbin/bird")
+	// return err == nil
+	return false
 }
 
 func writeBirdConfig() error {

website/content/tutorial/minikube.md

@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ will be configured to speak BGP, but won't configure Linux to forward
 traffic based on the data they receive. Instead, we'll just inspect
 that data to see what a real router _would_ do.
 
+{{% notice note %}}
+BIRD is temporarily disabled due to
+a [bug](https://github.com/google/metallb/issues/142), so screenshots
+will look slightly different.
+{{% /notice %}}
+
 Deploy these test routers with `kubectl`:
 
 `kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google/metallb/v0.3.0/manifests/test-bgp-router.yaml`