ixia-c-dpdk-aws

Ixia-c traffic engine deployment on Amazon Web Services with DPDK

Overview

This is a public cloud lab where Ixia-c has two traffic ports connected within a single subnet of an AWS VPC. The environment is deployed using Terraform and Cloud-Init is used to configure the application and traffic engines. Performance improvements are enabled through DPDK support. Once the lab is up, a Python script is used to request Ixia-c to generate traffic and report statistics.

Prerequisites

• This lab requires the commands below to be executed from within AWS CloudShell.

Clone the repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/open-traffic-generator/otg-examples.git

Navigate to the lab subdirectory within the repository

cd otg-examples/public-cloud/aws/ixia-c-dpdk-aws/

Deploy Ixia-c lab

1. Create Terraform deployment.

2. Wait approximately 6 minutes for infrastructure to be deployed.

3. Execute Python test case to generate traffic between AWS instances.

   make all
   

Execute Traffic Test additional times as needed

1. Execute Python test case to generate traffic between AWS instances.

   make run
   

Destroy the lab

1. Destroy the Terraform deployment

   make clean