Quagga in Docker

This demo shows off two ways of putting Quagga into a Docker container to do Layer 3 networking on the hosts.

Quickstart: Run the demo

(This assumes you are running Ansible 1.9.4 and Vagrant 1.8.4 on your host.)

git clone https://github.com/cumulusnetworks/cldemo-vagrant
cd cldemo-vagrant
vagrant up oob-mgmt-server oob-mgmt-switch leaf01 leaf02 leaf03 leaf04 spine01 spine02 server01 server02 server03 server04
vagrant ssh oob-mgmt-server
sudo su - cumulus
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -qy
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible -y
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ansible -qy
git clone https://github.com/cumulusnetworks/cldemo-docker-quagga
cd cldemo-docker-quagga
ansible-playbook run-demo.yml
ssh server01
wget 10.0.0.32
cat index.html

Before you start

This demo requires you set up a topology as per the diagram below:

                 +--------------+  +--------------+
                 | spine01      |  | spine02      |
                 |              |  |              |
                 +--------------+  +--------------+
                swp1-4 ||||                |||| swp1-4
         +---------------------------------+|||
         |             ||||+----------------+|+----------------+
         |             |||+---------------------------------+  |
      +----------------+|+----------------+  |              |  |
swp51 |  | swp52  swp51 |  | swp52  swp51 |  | swp52  swp51 |  | swp52
+--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+
| leaf01       |  | leaf02       |  | leaf03       |  | leaf04       |
|              |  |              |  |              |  |              |
+--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+
  swp1 |  swp2 \ / swp1 | swp2       swp1 |   swp2 \ / swp1 | swp2
       |        X       |                 |         X       |
  eth1 |  eth2 / \ eth1 | eth2       eth1 |   eth2 / \ eth1 | eth2
+--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+
| server01     |  | server02     |  | server03     |  | server04     |
|              |  |              |  |              |  |              |
+--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+  +--------------+

This topology is also described in the topology.dot and topology.json files. Additionally, an out of band management server that can SSH into the leafs and spines via the specified hostnames is required. Setting up this topology is outside the scope of this document.

This demo is written using Ansible 2.0. Install Ansible on the management server before you begin. Instructions for installing Ansible can be found here: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html

Running the Demo

On the management server, download the demo and cd into the top directory. Run the command: ansible-playbook run-demo.yml.

After running one demo, you will need to log into the servers and delete the Docker containers before you can create another one. You can do this with the command docker ps -a | docker rm.

docker-privileged

Installs Quagga on a privileged Docker container with access to the host machine's networking stack. In this demo, we set up OSPF-numbered on both hosts (via Docker) and the leaves, making it possible for one host to ping the other.

This demo showcases how easy it is to configure Quagga without having to install the package natively. Since the Cumulus version of Quagga is often ahead of the official release, it can be packaged into a Docker container without needing to change the package sources of the host or compile it from source on a non-debian machine.