What the hell is that ??

Vpipes is a project I initiated when I wanted to learn how-and-what-can I do with PMACCT. Starting lab-pmacct I needed a netflow data source to use it. So I started an unpublished project named lab-vqfx, based on the Junpier Virtual QFX (Junos 15.1) that @dgarros provided me. Then I told myself :

• Doing vqfx is not enough
• you need something that can scale out to multiple nodes
• I need a tool to get from a sketch to a running lab in minutes to test designs

Install

• Boot a new VM of your favorite distro
• Savagely copy / paste the following commands (after checking of course)

apt-get update
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
apt-key fingerprint 0EBFCD88
add-apt-repository    "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
apt-get install -y \
  apt-transport-https \
  ca-certificates \
  curl \
  docker-ce \
  git \
  jq \
  linux-image-extra-$(uname -r) \
  linux-image-extra-virtual \
  software-properties-common \
  telnet
apt-get remove docker docker-engine
apt-get update
service docker status
service docker start

• Check that /dev/kvm exists because we are going to boot some VMs
• Clone the repo : # git clone https://github.com/fdebonneval/vpipes.git
• Build the vpipes-base image # cd vpipes-base-image && make build
• Build the guest images you will need for your lab in the contrib folder
• Transcribe your sketch into the lab.json file
• Create the docker vpipes network
• Use # make consul to launch Consul
• Use # make plan to feed the terraform file
• Or use # make apply to launch your lab