GEC22 Tutorial: Using the jFed tool to experiment from zero to hero

Schedule

Tuesday 10.30am - 12.30pm

Session Leaders

Brecht Vermeulen iMinds	Thijs Walcarius iMinds

Prerequisites

• A GENI account, if you don't have one sign up!

Please Arrive With:

A Laptop, preferable with the following tools pre-installed:

• a recent Oracle Java8 version (openJDK does not work well)
  • Windows and MAC users can go to ​http://java.com/en/download/
  • linux users: see ​http://jfed.iminds.be/java8_on_linux/
  • MAC users: configure some security settings for using jFed on firefox or safari
• a recent version of Firefox for best compatibility (or Safari on MAC) (chrome might also work but some versions have problems launching automatically)
• verify your installation: ​http://java.com/verify and you can try the jFed button in the GENI portal
• windows users: full PuTTy ssh client installation: ​http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty-0.64-installer.exe
• join the project 'ipv6proxy' in the GENI portal

Description

The ​jFed tool is a resource provisioning tool to build experiments on testbeds like GENI racks, European FIRE testbeds, etc. It is built to make it very easy for experimenters to provision machines and networks, while on the other side it also has a lot of functionality for doing advanced experimentation.

In this tutorial we will work on this by starting from a very simple experiment and ending up in a big scale experiment, the typical workflow you do for scaling up and automating your experiment. In this we will combine multiple slices and use stitching to combine multiple racks. For example see topology:

Audience

Beginner to Advanced.

Of interest to people wanting:

• a simple graphical tool to build experiments, and
• interested in scaling up experiments.

Agenda

• Slides: pptx​
• Instructions: GEC22_jfed_tutorial_notes.pdf​