ovsdb

An Erlang library for supporting OVSDB protocol as defined in RFC7047. APIs are inspired by Ryu's OVSDB library.

QuckStart

# clone
$ git clone git://github.com/vasu-dasari/erlang-ovsdb.git
$ cd erlang-ovsdb

# Compile and run
$ make run

There is an option to try out the library against OVS instance. Project has a docker/docker-compose.yml which defines the docker network that can setup to demonstrate this.

# make up       # Brings up container network
# make run      # Compile and run ovsdb, brings up Erlang shell

# enable ovsdb manager in ovs1
# make connect ovs1     # Brings up ovs1 console
root@ovs1:~# ovs-vsctl set-manager ptcp:6640

# Tu run various API commands agains OVS container ovs1,
(ovsdb@ovsdb)1> ovsdb_utils:unit_test_ovs().

Look at the code ovsdb_utils:unit_test_ovs() for more information.

Usage Example

API

See EDoc Document

License

This library is released under the Apache License.

See the COPYING file for full license information.

Acknowledgement

Some ideas for implementing the library were take from shun159/eovsdb .