Model Plugins for onos-config YANG Files compiled with YGOT loadable as Shared Object Libraries

The plugins can be built individually (use make help to see the target names), or altogether with make images.

The plugins are loaded in Kubernetes by declaring them

1. as additional (sidecar) containers in the onos-config Pod AND
2. as a -modelPlugin option on the startup of onos-config

These are usually specified in the onos-config Helm Chart or in onit.

As the plugin containers startup in Kubernetes the default command is copylibandstay. This is a tiny program that copies the library in to a shared folder where onos-config can refer to it as a file e.g. /usr/local/lib/shared/devicesim.so.1.0.0

See the guide Extending onos-config with Model Plugins for more details.

There are some tips at the end of the Extending guide Troubleshooting

The first 3 plugins

• testdevice-1.0.0
• testdevice-2.0.0
• devicesim-1.0.0

are used as Go module packages in their own right from inside the Unit tests of onos-config. For this reason each one has it's own go.mod.

The plugin

• stratum-1.0.0

has its own go.mod to that it is ignored by the top level go.mod.

Also in future it is intended that the stratum_1_0_0 package will be generated at compile time from YANG, (using YGOT Generate) and removed from Git versioning

The main purpose of the top level go.mod is to provide a set of go modules (as vendor) to the Docker build container.

The versions of the packages in this top level go.mod must exactly match those of onos-config's go.mod, or the plugin will not be loadable by onos-config at run time.