Broker(s) collect substrate advertisement information models (delegations) from AMs, aggregate them together and make them available to orchestrator(s) via a query interface. They also issue reservations for resources to orchestrators to be redeemed at appropriate AMs.
Broker runs as a set of four container depicted in the picture below.
- Broker: runs the Control Framework Broker
- Postgres: database maintains slices and reservation information
- Neo4j: Combined Substrate information from all the aggregates i.e. Combined Broker Model is maintained in Neo4j
- PDP: Policy Definition point used by Broker to authorize user requests
An overview of Broker thread model is shown below:
- Main : spawns all threads, loads config, starts prometheus exporter
- Actor Clock : delivers a periodic event to Actor Main thread based on the time interval configured
- Actor : Kernel thread responsible for processing various requested operations on slices/reservations
- Kafka Producer : Thread pool responsible for sending outgoing messages from AM over Kafka
- Timer : Timer thread to timeout requests such as claim
- Kafka Consumer : Consumer thread responsible for processing incoming messages for AM over Kafka
Broker is the core of the Control Framework and is responsible for allocating resources to the requested reservations.
This allocation is done by Broker policy i.e. BrokerSimplerUnitsPolicy
based on the resource type i.e. NetworkNode or NetworkService.
Allocation for each resource type is handled by the respective Inventory classes as indicated in the diagram.
config.site.broker.yaml
depicts an example config file for a Broker.
- Kafka Configuration
- Request topic, consumer and producer credentials for each Actor from Song
- Request Hosts running the Actors to be added to Kafka Brokers and Schema Registry Firewall
- Make sure to configure consumer.group.id different for each actor
Broker must deploy following containers:
- Neo4j
- Postgres Database
- Policy Enforcement Function
- Broker
docker-compose.yml
file present in this directory brings up all the required containers
Run the setup.sh
script to set up a Broker. User is expected to specify following parameters:
- Directory name for Broker
- Neo4j Password to be used
- Path to the config file for Broker
./setup.sh broker password ./config.broker.yaml
The script setup.sh
generates directory for the Broker, which has .env
file which contains Environment variables for docker-compose.yml
to use
User is expected to update .env
file as needed and update volumes section for broker in docker-compose.yml
.
Following files must be checked to update any of the parameters
.env
from env.template - Environment variables fordocker-compose.yml
to useconfig.yaml
updated to reflect the correct information
Modify the default values for each to correspond to your desired deployment. The UID and GID based entries should correspond to the values of the user responsible for running the code as these will relate to shared volumes from the host to the running containers. NOTE: bolt, http and https ports for Neo4J should be changed when launching multiple CF Actors on same host
# docker-compose environment file
#
# When you set the same environment variable in multiple files,
# here’s the priority used by Compose to choose which value to use:
#
# 1. Compose file
# 2. Shell environment variables
# 3. Environment file
# 4. Dockerfile
# 5. Variable is not defined
# Neo4J configuration
NEO4J_DATA_PATH_DOCKER=/data
NEO4J_DATA_PATH_HOST=./neo4j/data
NEO4J_GID=1000
NEO4J_HOST=neo4j
NEO4J_IMPORTS_PATH_DOCKER=/imports
NEO4J_IMPORTS_PATH_HOST=./neo4j/imports
NEO4J_LOGS_PATH_DOCKER=/logs
NEO4J_LOGS_PATH_HOST=./neo4j/logs
NEO4J_PASS=password
NEO4J_UID=1000
NEO4J_USER=neo4j
NEO4J_dbms_connector_bolt_advertised__address=0.0.0.0:8687
NEO4J_dbms_connector_bolt_listen__address=0.0.0.0:8687
NEO4J_dbms_connector_http_advertised__address=0.0.0.0:8474
NEO4J_dbms_connector_http_listen__address=0.0.0.0:8474
NEO4J_dbms_connector_https_advertised__address=0.0.0.0:8473
NEO4J_dbms_connector_https_listen__address=0.0.0.0:8473
# postgres configuration
POSTGRES_HOST=database
POSTGRES_PORT=5432
POSTGRES_USER=fabric
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=fabric
PGDATA=/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata
POSTGRES_DB=broker
PDP_NEW_CONF_PATH_HOST=./pdp/conf
PDP_NEW_POLICIES_PATH_HOST=./pdp/policies
PDP_GID=1000
PDP_UID=1000
The parameters depicted below must be checked/updated before bring any of the containers up.
runtime:
kafka-server:
kafka-schema-registry-url:
kafka-key-schema: /etc/fabric/message_bus/schema/key.avsc
kafka-value-schema: /etc/fabric/message_bus/schema/message.avsc
kafka-ssl-ca-location: /etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/cacert.pem
kafka-ssl-certificate-location: /etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/client.pem
kafka-ssl-key-location: /etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/client.key
kafka-ssl-key-password:
kafka-security-protocol: SSL
kafka-group-id:
kafka-sasl-mechanism:
kafka-sasl-producer-username:
kafka-sasl-producer-password:
kafka-sasl-consumer-username:
kafka-sasl-consumer-password:
prometheus.port: 11000
logging:
## The directory in which actor should create log files.
## This directory will be automatically created if it does not exist.
log-directory: /var/log/actor
## The filename to be used for actor's log file.
log-file: actor.log
## The default log level for actor.
log-level: DEBUG
## actor rotates log files. You may specify how many archived log files to keep here.
log-retain: 5
## actor rotates log files after they exceed a certain size.
## You may specify the file size that results in a log file being rotated here.
log-size: 5000000
logger: broker
oauth:
jwks-url: https://cm.fabric-testbed.net/certs
# Uses HH:MM:SS (less than 24 hours)
key-refresh: 00:10:00
verify-exp: True
database:
db-user: fabric
db-password: fabric
db-name: broker
db-host: broker-db:5432
container:
container.guid: broker-conainer
time:
# This section controls settings, which are generally useful
# when running under emulation. These settings allow you to
# control notion of time.
# Beginning of time (in unix time).
# The default is -1, which translates into using the current time as
# the beginning of time for the container's internal clock.
time.startTime: -1
# Internal tick length (in milliseconds)
time.cycleMillis: 1000
# The number of the first tick
time.firstTick: 0
# This property controls if time advances automatically (false) or
# manually (true)
time.manual: false
pdp:
url: http://broker-pdp:8080/services/pdp
enable: True
neo4j:
url: bolt://broker-neo4j:8687
user: neo4j
pass: password
import_host_dir: /usr/src/app/neo4j/imports/
import_dir: /imports
bqm:
kafka-topic: broker-resource-usage
# in seconds (default set to 2 hours)
publish-interval: 7200
kafka-sasl-producer-username:
kafka-sasl-producer-password:
actor:
type: broker
name: broker
guid: broker-guid
description: Broker
kafka-topic: broker-topic
policy:
module: fabric_cf.actor.core.policy.broker_simpler_units_policy
class: BrokerSimplerUnitsPolicy
properties:
algorithm: FirstFit
controls:
- control:
type: VM, Container, Baremetal
class: NetworkNodeInventory
module: fabric_cf.actor.core.policy.network_node_inventory
peers:
- peer:
name: orchestrator
type: orchestrator
guid: orchestrator-guid
kafka-topic: orchestrator-topic
- peer:
name: net1-am
guid: net1-am-guid
type: authority
kafka-topic: net1-am-topic
- peer:
name: site1-am
guid: site1-am-guid
type: authority
kafka-topic: site1-am-topic
Update docker-compose.yml
to point to correct volumes for the Broker.
volumes:
- ./neo4j:/usr/src/app/neo4j
- ./config.yaml:/etc/fabric/actor/config/config.yaml
- ./logs/:/var/log/actor
- ../../../secrets/snakeoil-ca-1.crt:/etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/cacert.pem
- ../../../secrets/kafkacat1.client.key:/etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/client.key
- ../../../secrets/kafkacat1-ca1-signed.pem:/etc/fabric/message_bus/ssl/client.pem
#- ./state_recovery.lock:/usr/src/app/state_recovery.lock
For the stateful restart, uncomment the - ./state_recovery.lock:/usr/src/app/state_recovery.lock
from volumes section of Broker container. After this broker
container can be stopped, removed and recreated in a stateful manner. However, it is required that neo4j and database containers are not removed and retain the state.
docker-compose stop broker
docker-compose rm -fv broker
Bring up PDP container
cd broker
docker-compose up -d pdp
Check for PDP container logs
docker logs broker-pdp
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Shutdown PDP container and replace the pdp.xml
in pdp/conf
directory
docker-compose stop pdp
cp ../pdp.xml pdp/conf/
Bring up all the required containers
docker-compose up -d