Revision as of 11:21, 7 September 2016

Honeycomb 1609 release

First release of Honeycomb (VPP management agent)

Release plan

Honeycomb/Release_Plans/Release_Plan_16.09

Features

16.09 release of Honeycomb comes with these features:

• Generic, model-driven agent framework providing northbound interfaces
  • NETCONF
  • RESTCONF

• V3po plugin for VPP management with following capabilities:
  • Interface management
  • Bridge-domain management
    • ARP termination table management
  • VXLAN tunnel management
  • VHOST-user interface managmenet
  • TAP interface management
  • VLAN management
  • Low-level classifier API access
  • ACL management
    • L2 permit/deny
    • L3 permit/deny
  • Vxlan GPE tunnel management
  • GRE management

• NSH plugin for VPP's NSH plugin with following capabilities
  • NSH plugin support

• LISP plugin for VPP with following capabilities
  • LISP managment

• Distribution available as zip, tar.gz, DEB and RPM packages

For further information refer to:

• Release plan
• JIRA backlog
• Provided RESTCONF collections with sample requests for all available APIs

Backlog

• Outstanding
• All

• Generated Release notes from JIRA

YANG models

List of YANG models implemented by Honeycomb:

• V3PO plugin yang models
• LISP plugin yang models
• NSH plugin yang models
• Context(mapping metadata) YANG models

Install guide

Installing binaries:

// TODO Update repository from snapshot master to release

• Installing from available binary packages

• Installing from available archives

Manual build

How to setup and build Honeycomb locally

User Guide

Configuration files

Honeycomb's configuration files present within its distribution:

• Honeycomb base configuration
• VPP plugins common configuration

POSTMAN collections

POSTMAN (google chrome REST client app) collections containing sample requests for all Honeycomb features. Useful when looking in depth for what Honeycomb supports.

• Honeycomb POSTMAN V3po(vpp core) collection
• Honeycomb POSTMAN LISP collection

Running Honeycomb

How to start and use Honeycomb

Devel guide

Tutorials:

• Plugin structure overview
• How to write Honeycomb plugins
• How to write Honeycomb plugins for VPP

Samples:

• Interface sample is part of the Honeycomb codebase - Generic(non-VPP) plugin with a custom distribution containing lots of useful information about Honeycomb and its plugins.

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