The collaborative open source project focused on developing a powerful, easy to use router designed for the cloud.
Just clarifying
Thanks for all who participated! Meeting archive will be linked off of https://cloudrouter.atlassian.net/wiki/x/fAAZ
@jagee have you used the vmdk image for CR 3.0? I usually use the ISO and the nice information about the cloud-init iso, but I just booted the vmdk image with VirtualBox and can't figure out how to add credentials. What's the best way for me to login to the vmdk image and configure CR?
@codetricity yes i tested the vmdk image build before the 3.0 release using windows 10 and virtualbox. Take a look at our guide here https://cloudrouter.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CPD/Getting+Started#GettingStarted-Virtualbox You can use the section on that page to creating your own cloud-init iso or use the provided one as well. If you run into any trouble please let us know and we will see if we can work through it. On first boot of ether the raw or vmdk image the cloud-init service will read the info off of the cloud-init.iso attached to the vm. Login creds are created based off of this provided data. after that the system should keep its existing settings for any further boot. You may need to try from a freshly unpacked vmdk image if the step of attaching the cloud-init iso before first boot was missed.
Anyone here?
I'd be very grateful if you could provide any advice
i tried running vbox image
but i get grub error
@astro_sutradhar_twitter we also have a guide for virtualbox here if you have not seen it https://cloudrouter.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CPD/Getting+Started#GettingStarted-Virtualbox
hi @itomkins , hello from fellow newbie land. Couple recent blog posts that might be useful: Installation on Windows 10 (https://app.console.to/article/57dc9c32f90f290f6444bbd4) and installing Cockpit - network/system mgmt interface (https://app.console.to/article/57dc9c32f90f290f6444bbd4) - Not exactly a perfect list of the best packages and tools, but maybe some things to start chewing on!
To get started, the Cloud Router images have the CRv4 RPM installed by default. Depending on whether you're using the Fedora base or the Centos base, you can install packages via dnf or yum, respectively. For the SDN controllers, you might want to have a look at packages OpenDayLight or ONOS, or you might be interested in bird, quagga or exabgp.
@itomkins: The challenge we have right now with CloudRouter is to figure out what direction makes the most sense for software-defined network technologies. At present the base platform is fairly generic, and the CloudRouter repos in their present form would serve just fine as an alternate RPM repo that contains networking-related packages. However, until we hit upon the right direction for the base platform - be it containers or unikernels or VMs, we are opting for greater flexibility. One thing I didn't realize until we were putting together this last v4.0 release was how many good networking software packages are out there that don't integrate nicely into the major Linux distros. While this is a much more limited goal for the project, meeting this need by packaging these components actually provides a useful service to the open source community. If you have any suggestions for packages we should include or ideas about what sort of platform specializations we should be looking at, by all means please raise a JIRA ticket or bring it up as a discussion point here.
@SiegristJ Thanks for that detailed answer, it was really difficult to get a feel for what this thing really is from the info on the cloudrouter.org site which presents is as much more of an OTS router distro (comparable with something like vyos for example) that what it really is which is a platform to go build your own stuff on top of with a bunch of useful tools baked in.
btw i still haven't been able to find a list of all the packages provided in CR4 over the top of stock fedora/centos
@itomkins As John pointed out, one of the key advantages of CloudRouter is that we do pull together lots of disparate SDN-related technologies and make them easily consumable. This significantly lowers the barrier to entry for individuals wishing to play around with the latest and greatest. We wanted to do this on a solid foundation, hence the decision to ship on both Fedora and CentOS.
@itomkins We will get a list posted to the site, but if you check out the package repo, you can see the list . . . https://repo.cloudrouter.org/4/centos/7/x86_64/
@itomkins Likewise for Fedora, https://repo.cloudrouter.org/4/fedora/24/x86_64/