[Nfd-dev] Creating multiple VMs with NFD quickly

[Gusev, Peter]

Hi Junxiao,

Question: Why do you choose to install ndn-cxx, NFD, and ndn-tools from source code, as opposed from PPA repository?

To have latest build, and three previous versions - 0.6.1, 0.6.0 and 0.51


Suggestion: If you are building from source code, you can use Docker multi-stage build to reduce the size of the final image. Although you have a "cleanup" step, the intermediate layers would still contain the compilers etc. See my Dockerfile for an example on how to use multi-stage build: https://github.com/yoursunny/docker-nfd-build/blob/f999f3fa38a3c3f229471282b482338a1cabd177/Dockerfile

that’s helpful, I’ll look into this. This might be very useful for reducing ndnrtc image which is due to webrtc grows large


Question: With your Docker image and "ndndn", is it possible to connect to NFD via Unix sockets, or are the connections UDP/TCP only?


this will require some additional effort. I think, nfd.sock file shall be exposed (mounted) to the host machine in a specific place in the filesystem (is it /var/run/ ?). not sure how this will affect other applications using this directory on the host machine.
there also might be something else, like ~/.ndn folder that needs to be mounted, too.

Suggestion: If you can get Unix sockets working, you can build a separate Docker image for each NDN application, such as "nfd" "ndnping-client" "ndnping-server" "ndnrtc-consumer" "ndnrtc-producer”.

oh I see what you mean. Yes this is possible through using virtual volumes. I will consider doing this.

Thanks!


Yours, Junxiao

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Peter Gusev <gpeetonn at gmail.com<mailto:gpeetonn at gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi devs,

I thought it might be useful to share what I have here.
I combed my tools and scripts that I wrote for running ndnrtc-client in Docker containers for general-purpose user, and results can be found in this repo - https://github.com/peetonn/ndn-docker/

which currently contains two "parts":
- node for stand-alone NDN Docker image (aka - docker pull peetonn/ndn-docker:latest )
- ndndn - a tool running multiple containers on arbitrary defined topologies using .dot files

I intend to continue adding features on this.
hope it might be useful for someone outside UCLA REMAP, room 1469c.

Thanks,

--
Peter Gusev

peter at remap.ucla.edu<mailto:peter at remap.ucla.edu>
+1 213 5872748

Research Scholar @ REMAP UCLA<http://remap.ucla.edu/>
Video streaming/ICN networks/Creative Development

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