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http://docs.projectcalico.org
This repository contains the source code for Project Calico's per-host daemon, Felix.
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Felix mostly uses Docker for builds. We develop on Ubuntu 16.04 but other
Linux distributions should work (there are known Makefile that prevent building on OS X).
To build Felix, you will need:
- A suitable linux box.
- To check out the code into your GOPATH.
- Docker >=1.12
- GNU make.
- Plenty of disk space (since the builds use some heavyweight full-OS containers in order to build debs and RPMs).
Then, as a one-off, run
make update-tools
which will install a couple more go tools that we haven't yet containerised.
Then, to build the calico-felix binary:
make bin/calico-felix
or, the calico/felix docker image:
make calico/felix
To run all the UTs:
make ut
To start a ginkgo watch, which will re-run the relevant UTs as you update files:
make ut-watch
To get coverage stats:
make cover-report
or
make cover-browser
If you want to be able to run unit tests for specific packages for more iterative development, you'll need to install
- GNU make
- go >=1.7
then run make update-tools to install ginkgo, which is the test tool used to
run Felix's unit tests.
There are several ways to run ginkgo. One option is to change directory to the
package you want to test, then run ginkgo. Another is to use ginkgo's
watch feature to monitor files for changes:
cd go
ginkgo watch -r
Ginkgo will re-run tests as files are modified and saved.
After building the docker image (see above), you can run Felix and log to screen
with, for example:
docker run --privileged --net=host -e FELIX_LOGSEVERITYSCREEN=INFO calico/felix
The Makefile has targets for building debs and RPMs for different platforms.
By using docker, the build does not need to be run on the target platform.
make deb
make rpm
The packages (and source packages) are output to the dist directory.