Support deploying Ixia-C pods for topologies involving OTG SW ports and DUT HW ports in docker environment

[ashutshkumr]

Here’s the summary:

• FeatureProfiles has already been enhanced to support static binding in order to run OTG tests (earlier only ATE tests were supported).
  • OTG tests will now run without issues against both Ixia-C S/W ports and Ixia-C H/W ports
  • The PR is still under review by a team at Google
• From test execution POV, The OTG and DUT endpoint addresses need to be specified in static binding file (no change here).
• From deployment POV,
  • ixia-c-operator will need to be deployed on host node, mapped to docker socket
  • ixia-c controller and port containers shall be deployed using docker API on same host based on a declarative YAML
  • the YAML will need to be pushed using curl. e.g. curl -k -X POST https://localhost:6443/ -d @deploy.yaml
  • the YAML would specify list of port containers to deploy - i.e. each item consisting of the name of interfaces inside port container and name of corresponding real interface on host it’ll bind to (real interface shall be connected to DUT H/W ports)
  • ixia-c-operator will automate network plumbing (e.g. use MacVLAN to bind port container interface to and host interface)
• Deployment is limited to single node and KNE is not needed.

[ashutshkumr]

[greg-dennis]

@ashutshkumr, thank you! Jasdeep and I will be reviewing this and getting back to you.