Cherry is an OpenFlow controller written in Go that supports OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 protocols. This project is not designed for general purpose, and it instead focuses on SDN (Software-Defined Networking) for an IT service provider.
- Supports OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3 protocols
- Focuses on compatibility with commercial OpenFlow-enabled switches
- Supports network topology that has loops in it
- Provides several northbound applications: ProxyARP, L2Switch, Floating-IP, etc.
- Provides simple plugin system for northbound applications
- RESTful API to manage the controller itself
- Dell Force10 S4810
- Dell Force10 S3048-ON
- Dell Force10 S3148
- Open vSwitch
- HP 2920G
- Pica8 P-3295
- Quanta T1048-LB9
- MySQL (or MariaDB) database server
You can install Cherry on Docker or natively from source based on your preference.
- Install Docker if you don't have it on your system by following instruction: https://docs.docker.com/installation/
- Clone Cherry:
$ git clone https://github.com/superkkt/cherry.git
- Copy the template configuration:
$ sudo cp cherry/cherry.yaml /usr/local/etc
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Edit the configuration file /usr/local/etc/cherry.yaml as you want.
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Build Docker image as root:
# cd cherry; docker build -t cherry .
- Run as root:
# docker run -d -p 6633:6633 -v /dev/log:/dev/log -v /your/config/cherry.yaml:/usr/local/etc/cherry.yaml cherry
The bind mount of /dev/log is to collect syslog messages from the container and then write to the host's syslog daemon.
- That's it! Cherry will be started in L2 switch mode.
- Install Go language if you don't have it on your system by following instruction: http://golang.org/doc/install
- Clone and compile Cherry:
$ go get github.com/superkkt/cherry
- Copy the compiled binary and template configuration:
$ sudo cp $GOPATH/bin/cherry /usr/local/bin
$ sudo cp $GOPATH/src/github.com/superkkt/cherry/cherry.yaml /usr/local/etc
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Edit the configuration file /usr/local/etc/cherry.yaml as you want.
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Run:
$ /usr/local/bin/cherry &
- That's it! Cherry will be started in L2 switch mode.
Copyright (C) 2015 Samjung Data Service, Inc. All rights reserved.
Kitae Kim <[email protected]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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