5GTANGO Portal

This repository contains an Angular 7 application for the 5GTANGO Portal.

The main function of this web application is to provide a method to unify monitoring, user management and interactions with the Validation and Verification Platform, the Service Platform and with the Service Management.

There is also a version of the Portal for using the 5GTANGO Service Development Kit, which is further described below.

Installation

Make sure that you have all the dependencies installed. Then, run the following command to install all the required modules.

npm install

Dependencies

• Node.js >= v8.9

[sudo] sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

[sudo] npm install -g npm

• Angular >= v6 and < v8

[sudo] npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

• Athens VPN credentials: requests made from the Portal in the development mode need the VPN in order to receive a response.

• Make sure you have installed Docker >= 18.06.0-ce if you are going to deploy the Portal like this.

Developing

If you just want to test the app, or start developing something you can quickly serve it with the following. This includes hot reloading for any (HTML/CSS/JS) change.

ng serve --host development --open

Note: You need to register the development domain in your /etc/hosts next to the localhost declaration

Running a docker container

If you want to launch a container locally, place yourself in the Dockerfile folder and try the following:

[sudo] docker build -t tng-portal .
[sudo] docker run -p 80:4200 tng-portal

The container should be up and running in http://localhost:80.

Note: The port where the app will run when using the Docker container can be set in ./Dockerfile. By default, 4200 is set.

Configuration

Portal allows two different configurations: the base URL of the deployment and the displayed sections of the menu.

Routes to the services

The routes to the services for this project are defined in the config.service.ts file placed in /src/app/shared/services/config/config.service.ts.

When launched in development mode, by default the used services come from:

• For SP: http://pre-int-sp-ath.5gtango.eu:32002
• For V&V: http://pre-int-vnv-bcn.5gtango.eu:32002
• For SDK: http://localhost

Note: When deployed in production the Portal takes the URL of the domain where it was deployed so there is no need to configure it.

Menu sections displayed

There is a configuration variable called features_available that defines the sections that can be shown in the deployed app.

When deploying locally, the file containing this variable is /src/config.json. Through removing or adding the names of the menu sections, the Portal will include them.

These are the sections that can be activated:

  features_available:  [
	"DASHBOARD",
	"PLATFORMS",
	"SETTINGS",
	"VALIDATION",
	"SERVICE PLATFORM",
	"SERVICE MANAGEMENT"
  ]

When deploying in production, there are three predefined configuration files: /src/config-sp.json, /src/config-vnv.json and /src/config-sdk.json for each of the environments. They configure the Portal automatically to display the sections of interest. The user just needs to declare an environmental variable called $PLATFORM with the value sp, vnv or sdk.

Note: The SDK functionality is currently separated and only available in the sdk branch of the repository.

SDK Portal

The SDK Portal is currently an independent extension to the regular 5GTANGO Portal. It provides a simple graphical user interface for creating new NFV projects, generating and editing corresponding network service and VNF descriptors. These NFV projects can then be then be validated, packaged, and downloaded for further usage.

The SDK Portal is maintained in the sdk branch. To use it, check out and use the code from that branch for all following commands.

Running the SDK Backend

The SDK Portal connects to the 5GTANGO SDK tools, which are installed in a dedicated Docker image. To build or pull the image and run at the project root do:

# pull from Docker Hub
[sudo] docker pull sonatanfv/tng-sdk-portal-backend
# or build locally
[sudo] docker build --no-cache -f Dockerfile-sdk-portal-backend -t sonatanfv/tng-sdk-portal-backend .

# run
[sudo] docker run -it -p 5098:5098 -p 8888:8888 --rm sonatanfv/tng-sdk-portal-backend

Configuring the SDK Portal to Connect to the Backend

The IP address of the SDK backend container needs to be configured in config.service.ts before starting the SDK Portal. The default value is http://localhost for a locally deployed SDK backend container.

Running the SDK Portal

The SDK Portal is installed and started similar to the regular 5GTANGO Portal, as described above.

Running a Dev Server

npm install
ng serve

When running a dev server locally, the browser needs to permit CORS to allow the connection to the service platform when on-boarding packages. For example, Google Chrome can be started allowing CORS with the following command:

# linux
google-chrome --disable-web-security --user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome
# windows
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-web-security --user-data-dir="C:\Users\<username>\tmpChromeSession"

Running in a Docker Container

Important: Set environmental variable -e PLATFORM=sdk when running the container.

[sudo] docker build -t tng-portal .
[sudo] docker run -p 80:4200 -e PLATFORM=sdk tng-portal

Documentation

The documentation relative to this project can be found in the Wiki page of this repository.

License

The tng-gui is published under Apache 2.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.

Lead Developers

The following lead developers are responsible for this repository and have admin rights. They can, for example, merge pull requests.

• Antón Román Portabales ([email protected])
• Ana Pol González ([email protected])
• Daniel Fernandez Calvo ([email protected])
• Stefan Schneider ([email protected])

Feedback-Chanel

• You may use the mailing list sonata-dev-list
• Gitter room