Honeycomb/Releases/1609/Developing Honeycomb Plugins

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Honeycomb plugin development tutorial

Honeycomb plugin development guide for 16.09 Honeycomb release.

Developing generic plugins

Since Honeycomb is a generic agent. Any plugin (translation code) can be injected into the framework, creating a custom agent providing RESTCONF/NETCONF northbound interfaces out-of-box.

Developing plugin code

Bootstrapping Honeycomb plugin

Creating custom agent distribution

Adding existing plugins to the mix

Verifying agent

Full working example

Developing plugins for VPP

Honeycomb's primary use case is to provide an agent for VPP. There already are some plugins that provide the translation code for VPP, but there are still APIs that are not covered. In this section, a sample Honeycomb plugin will be created communicating with VPP.

Developing plugin code

Bootstrapping Honeycomb plugin

Creating custom agent distribution

Adding existing plugins

Verifying agent

Full working example