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Installing Federation Gateway

Prerequisites

To install the Federation Gateway, there are three required files that are deployment-specific. These are described below:

  • rootCA.pem - This file should match the rootCA.pem of the Orchestrator that the Federation Gateway will connect to.

  • control_proxy.yml - This file is used to configure the magmad and control_proxy services to point toward the appropriate Orchestrator. A sample configuration is provided below. The bootstrap_address, bootstrap_port, controller_address, and controller_port are the parameters that will likely need to be modified.

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# nghttpx config will be generated here and used
nghttpx_config_location: /var/tmp/nghttpx.conf

# Location for certs
rootca_cert: /var/opt/magma/certs/rootCA.pem
gateway_cert: /var/opt/magma/certs/gateway.crt
gateway_key: /var/opt/magma/certs/gateway.key

# Listening port of the proxy for local services. The port would be closed
# for the rest of the world.
local_port: 8443

# Cloud address for reaching out to the cloud.
cloud_address: controller.magma.test
cloud_port: 443

bootstrap_address: bootstrapper-controller.magma.test
bootstrap_port: 443

# Option to use nghttpx for proxying. If disabled, the individual
# services would establish the TLS connections themselves.
proxy_cloud_connections: True

# Allows http_proxy usage if the environment variable is present
allow_http_proxy: True
  • .env - This file provides any deployment specific environment variables used in the docker-compose.yml of the Federation Gateway. A sample configuration is provided below:
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COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=feg
DOCKER_REGISTRY=<registry>
DOCKER_USERNAME=<username>
DOCKER_PASSWORD=<password>
IMAGE_VERSION=latest

ROOTCA_PATH=/var/opt/magma/certs/rootCA.pem
CONTROL_PROXY_PATH=/etc/magma/control_proxy.yml
SNOWFLAKE_PATH=/etc/snowflake

CERTS_VOLUME=/var/opt/magma/certs
CONFIGS_VOLUME=/var/opt/magma/configs

# This section is unnecessary if using host networking
S6A_LOCAL_PORT=3868
S6A_HOST_PORT=3868
S6A_NETWORK=sctp

SWX_LOCAL_PORT=3869
SWX_HOST_PORT=3869
SWX_NETWORK=sctp

GX_LOCAL_PORT=3870
GX_HOST_PORT=3870
GX_NETWORK=tcp

GY_LOCAL_PORT=3871
GY_HOST_PORT=3871
GY_NETWORK=tcp

Installation

The installation is done using the install_gateway.sh script located at magma/orc8r/tools/docker. To install, copy that file and the three files described above into a directory on the install host. Then

INSTALL_HOST [~/]$ sudo ./install_gateway.sh feg

After this completes, you should see: Installed successfully!!

Registration

After installation, the next step is to register the gateway with the Orchestrator. To do so:

INSTALL_HOST [~/]$ cd /var/opt/magma/docker
INSTALL_HOST [/var/opt/magma/docker]$ docker-compose exec magmad /usr/local/bin/show_gateway_info.py

This will output a hardware ID and a challenge key. This information must be registered with the Orchestrator. At this time, NMS support for FeG registration is still in-progress.

To register the FeG, go to the Orchestrator's APIdocs in your browser. Note: It is highly encouraged to use V1 of the apidocs (i.e. https://controller.url.sample:9443/apidocs/v1/).

Now, create a Federation Network. This is found at /feg under the Federation Networks section. Then register the gateway under the Federation Gateway section at /feg/{network_id}/gateways using the network ID of the Federation Network and the hardware ID and challenge key from the previous step.

To verify that the gateway was correctly registered, run:

INSTALL_HOST [~/]$ cd /var/opt/magma/docker
INSTALL_HOST [/var/opt/magma/docker]$ docker-compose exec magmad /usr/local/bin/checkin_cli.py

Upgrades

The Federation Gateway supports NMS initiated upgrades. These can be triggered from the NMS under the Configure section by updating the FeG's tier to the appropriate Software Version. After triggering the upgrade from the NMS, magmad on the gateway will pull down the specified docker images, update any static configuration, and update the docker-compose file to the appropriate version.

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