ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Full-Day Tutorial on Programming the Network Data Plane

A presentation by the P4 Language Consortium

Held at InterContinental Budapest on Monday, August 20, 2018

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Virtual Machine

We have created a virtual machine that has all of the software needed to complete the developer day exercises already installed. You can either download a virtual machine image or build it from source. Note that both of these procedures can take around 45 minutes depending on the speed of your network connection.

  • To download the virtual machine image
    1. Install VirtualBox
      https://virtualbox.org
    2. Download virtual machine image
      P4 Tutorial 2018-06-01.ova
    3. Import virtual machine into VirtualBox
      Open VirtualBox, select “File > Import Appliance”, and navigate to the downloaded file.
    4. Boot virtual machine
      Select “P4 Tutorial 2018-06-01”, and click “Start”.
  • To build the virtual machine from source
    1. Install VirtualBox
      https://virtualbox.org
    2. Install Vagrant
      https://vagrantup.com
    3. Clone the tutorial repository
      $ git clone https://github.com/p4lang/tutorials
    4. Navigate to the vm directory
      $ cd tutorials/vm/
    5. Build the virtual machine
      $ vagrant up
  • Final steps
    After the machine boots, you should have a graphical desktop with all required software pre-installed, logged in as username “p4” (with password “p4”).

Agenda

  • 9:00 – 10:30am
    • Introduction to P4 and Overview of New Language Features
  • 10:30 – 11:00am
    • Break
  • 11:00 – 12:40
    • P4 Development Tools and Control Plane Interface
  • 12:40 – 2:00pm
    • Lunch
  • 2:00 – 3:15pm
    • Collaborative Lab Exercises
  • 3:15 – 3:45pm
    • Break
  • 3:45-5:30
    • Mini Research Workshop, Conclusion