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Configuring Contrail DPDK vRouter to Run in a Docker Container

Starting with Contrail Release 5.0, you can configure the Contrail DPDK vRouter to run in a Docker container. In earlier releases, DPDK vRouter runs on a compute host. The contrail-vrouter-dpdk binary file provides data plane functionality when Contrail vRouter runs in DPDK mode in a Contrail cluster.

Complete these steps to configure Contrail DPDK vRouter to run in a Docker container.

  1. Run the following commands on the compute host:
  2. Perform the following steps on the Docker container:

    1. Install pciutils.

    2. Install the following packages in the container:

      • contrail-vrouter-dpdk-init

      • contrail-vrouter-dpdk

      • contrail-vrouter-utils

      • python-opencontrail-vrouter-netns

      • python-contrail-vrouter-api

  3. Run the following commands: