The Pub-Sub Framework and SDK is used to share live data among independent network entities or service endpoints in near real-time. This accelerator is well-suited for sharing internal state, counters and similar monitoring points among virtual network functions running in the context of VMs or containers. Using an optional SDN-controlled, OVS or OVS-DPDK-based virtual data bus, this solution promises real-time data sharing in a distributed deployment. Inter-VM Data is shared over OVS bridge or DPDK compliant OVS bridge using the OVS-DPDK provided para-virtualized virtio PMD.
The SDK provides a publish-subscribe mechanism to distributed applications or network functions, using which they can expose their internal states or variables to peering entities. This information can then be used for any kind of monitoring or decision-making.
Description
The SDK is based on a library offering APIs for the following:
- Publish a desired info from a service endpoint. The subscription scales to any number of subscribers and the publisher does not need to know about the subscribers before hand.
- Subscribe for the published info in a service endpoint and get near-realtime updates, whenever the subscribed variable changes in any publishing agent.
- Register/deregister/retrieve service endpoints
The SDK provides easy integration of these APIs with any proprietary application code base under test. The “publish” APIs can be used to publish the internal states or variables of an application. The user can also associate context information with the published info. The consumer of the information can be another application which can call “subscribe” APIs. The “subscriber” application can subscribe for a particular state or variable – retrieving information from all instances of the publishing application. It can subscribe for all states/variables published from a specific instance or all instances of the publishing application.
