Dev environment in Juniper lab

Windows CI, as an additional feature, allows for deployment of devenvs similar to the ones used in CI. This guide describes how to do it.

Prerequisites

• Access to Juniper network.
• Account for Windows CI Jenkins.
• Account for Windows CI VMWare cluster.

Steps

1. Choosing VLAN for the demo setup1.

TODO this is tedious and should be automated in the future.

1. Navigate to VCenter (currently at https://ci-vc.englab.juniper.net/ui)
2. Log in
3. Go to "Network" tab → CI-DC → dvs-ContrailWinCI
4. Click through VLANs 502-505 and find one that has "Virtual Machines: 0"\ Note it is very important that you don't cause any collisions with other users of dev environments.

2. Running Jenkins job

1. Navigate to Jenkins webui (currently at http://10.84.12.26:8080/)
2. Log in
3. Navigate to WinContrail-infra/deploy-demo-env
4. Press Build with Parameters:
   • DEMOENV_NAME - choose a short prefix for your VMs hostnames
   • DEMOENV_VLAN - choose an empty VLAN (the one you've found)
5. Wait for 15 minutes
6. Deploy (install) artifacts manually

3. Destroying demo env

1. After you're done using dev environment, remove all virtual machines created by deploy-demo-env
2. Navigate to Jenkins and log in (as described above)
3. Navigate to WinContrail-infra/destroy-demo-env
4. Press Build with Parameters, giving exactly the same DEMOENV_NAME as was used for deploying this demo env.