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

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