Clover User Guide (Gambia Release)

This document provides the Clover user guide for the OPNFV Gambia release.

Description

Clover Gambia builds on previous release to further enhance the toolset for cloud native network functions operations. The two emphasis on the release are:

  1. Integration of Spinnaker to support continuous delivery
  2. Centralizing Operational Data for Visibility

What is in Gambia?

  • Sample micro-service composed VNF named Service Delivery Controller (SDC)
  • Istio 1.0 support
  • clover-collector: gathers and collects metrics and traces from Prometheus and Jaeger, and provides a single access point for such data
  • Visibility: utilizes an analytic engine to correlate and organize data collected by clover-collector
  • cloverctl: Clover’s new CLI
  • Clovisor: Clover’s cloud native, CNI-plugin agnostic network tracing tool
  • Integration of HTTP Security Modules with Istio 1.0
  • JMeter: integrating jmeter as test client
  • Clover UI: sample UI to offer single pane view / configuration point of the Clover system
  • Spinnaker Integration: add ability to add/update/delete cloud provider via cloverctl, and sample pipeline utilized by Clover project to deploy SDC

Usage

  • Please refer to configguildes for usage detail on various modules