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Installing Carrier Wifi Gateway

Prerequisites

To install the Carrier Wifi 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 Carrier Wifi 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 Carrier Wifi Gateway. A sample configuration is provided below:
# Copyright 2020 The Magma Authors.

# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.

# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME=cwf
DOCKER_REGISTRY=<registry>
DOCKER_USERNAME=<username>
DOCKER_PASSWORD=<password>
IMAGE_VERSION=latest
GIT_HASH=master

BUILD_CONTEXT=https://github.com/magma/magma.git#master

ROOTCA_PATH=/var/opt/magma/certs/rootCA.pem
CONTROL_PROXY_PATH=/etc/magma/control_proxy.yml
CONFIGS_TEMPLATES_PATH=/etc/magma/templates

CERTS_VOLUME=/var/opt/magma/certs
CONFIGS_OVERRIDE_VOLUME=/var/opt/magma/configs
CONFIGS_DEFAULT_VOLUME=/etc/magma

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 cwag

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 [~/]$ 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.

To register the Carrier Wifi Gateway, 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 Carrier Wifi Network. This is found at /cwf under the Carrier Wifi Networks section. Then register the gateway under the Carrier Wifi Gateway section at /cwf/{network_id}/gateways using the network ID of the Carrier Wifi Network and the hardware ID and challenge key from the previous step.

To verify that the gateway was correctly registered, run:

INSTALL_HOST [~/]$ docker compose exec magmad /usr/local/bin/checkin_cli.py

Upgrades

The Carrier Wifi Gateway supports NMS initiated upgrades. These can be triggered from the NMS under the Configure section by updating the CWF'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.

Prepare Gateway Node for Upgrade

1. Configuring Docker With a Proxy

In order to the set the proxy for Docker, you will need to create a configuration file for the Docker service. No configuration files exist by default, so one will have to be created.

a. Create a new directory for Docker service configurations

  sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d

b. Create a file called http-proxy.conf in configuration directory.

  sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/docker.service.d/http-proxy.conf

c. Add the following contents, changing the values to match your environment

  [Service]
  Environment=HTTP_PROXY=http://bootstrapper-controller.magma.com:443
  Environment=HTTPS_PROXY=https://bootstrapper-controller.magma.com:443

d. Save your changes and Reload the daemon configuration.

  sudo systemctl daemon-reload

e. Install rootCA cert on ubuntu machine.

  sudo cp /var/opt/magma/certs/rootCA.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/rootCA.crt
  sudo update-ca-certificates

f. Restart Docker to apply changes.

  sudo service docker restart

2. update orc8r to support proxy

a. update orc8r-proxy values by editing  vals.yml

proxy:
  spec:
    http_proxy_docker_hostname: "docker.io"
    http_proxy_github_hostname: "github.com"

b. upgrade helm deployment

  cd magma/orc8r/cloud/helm/orc8r
  helm upgrade orc8r . --values=PATH_TO_VALS/vals.yml
  kubectl -n magma get pods

3. create or update upgrade tier with latest tag/commit id

a. open Orchestrator's APIdocs in your browser

 https://<orc8r_ip>:9443/apidocs/v1/#/Upgrades/post_networks__network_id__tiers

 {
   "gateways": [
     "cwf01"
   ],
   "id": "stable",
   "images": [
     {
       "name": "string",
       "order": 0
     }
   ],
   "name": "Stable Tier",
   "version": "1.0.0-123456789-<commit_id/tag_id>"
 }

4. tail magmad logs on the gateway to see the upgrade status

  [gateway]$ cd /var/opt/magma/docker
  [gateway]$ docker compose logs -f magmad
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