DEPRECATED

VOLTHA 2.6 was the last release that officially used python in any of the VOLTHA components. From 2.7 onwards no VOLTHA component is in python, thus the repo has been deprecated, the go libraries are in voltha-lib-go. This codebase is going to be removed after the VOLTHA 2.8 release LTS support ends in December 2022.

voltha-python-base

Ubuntu image with Python and pip packages as a generic base for VOLTHA 2.x containers. This exists because build duplication of the same apt and pip install dependencies cause needless build delay times. Also this guarantees a consistent set of dependencies needed for stability.

By making a base image the compilation time is avoided and having a shared base image can speed image downloads.

Characteristics

• Has no VOLTHA-specific code and it's own VERSION independent of VOLTHA development, so changes will happen more slowly, only when Ubuntu, Python or included packages have new releases.

• Installed via apt:

  • Standard toolchain (gcc, make, etc.) for building native extensions in Python
  • Libraries to build dependencies - libpcap-dev, python-dev, libressl, libffi
  • python2, pip, setuptools

• Installed via pip:

  • gRPC python libraries, and googleapi common protobuf definitions
  • kafkaloghandler
  • PyYAML
  • etcd
  • Twisted
  • among others...

Building

Run make build to build the container image, make push to send to a registry.

Testing

Currently the only test is to perform a container image build.