emulator

Emulator

We emulate edge scenarios with multiple nodes by using Containernet.

Setup

Requirements

• Ubuntu 20.04 (recommended)
• Python3
• Docker CE 20.10.14
• Docker Compose v2
• Sysbox CE 0.5.0

For Docker CE, Docker Compose and Sysbox CE you can look at the README in the project root..

Installation methods

Install using the convenience script

./install.sh

Manual

Install Containernet v3.1

sudo apt-get install ansible git
git clone --branch v3.1 https://github.com/containernet/containernet.git
#  We opened a pull request (#243) to make this edit available directly from upstream. See the PR for further details.
cp hack/node.py containernet/mininet/node.py
cp hack/install.yml containernet/ansible/install.yml
sudo ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local containernet/ansible/install.yml

Install Python packages

sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Files in the hack directory are required to enable runtime selection with containernet, currently not supported. See the associated pull request in containernet/containernet for more information.

Examples

See example.py