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OpenDaylight Cookbook

By : Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues
Book Image

OpenDaylight Cookbook

By: Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues

Overview of this book

OpenDaylight is an open source platform to program and build Software-Defined Networks (SDN). Its aim is to accelerate the adoption of SDN and NFV. With above 90 practical recipes, this book will help you to solve day-to-day problems and maintenance tasks surrounding OpenDaylight’s implementation. This book starts with the OpenDaylight fundamentals. In this book, you will gain a sound understanding of the methods and techniques when deploying OpenDaylight in production environment. Later on, you will learn to create a Service Chain using SFC. This book will address common problems and day-to-day maintenance tasks with OpenDaylight. We’ll also will teach you how to interact with OpenDaylight APIs and use the necessary tools to simulate networks. You will also explore how to create your own branded OpenDaylight along with authorising and authenticating users using OpenDaylight Identity Manager. By the end of this book, you will have the necessary skills to operate an OpenDaylight SDN environment.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Using OpenDaylight as an SDN controller server

In a real SDN Environment, the possibility of using multiple SDN controllers to manage the network exists. SDN controllers such as Ryu, Floodlight, and Pyretic can use OpenDaylight as a controller server to communicate with the network devices. In fact, OpenDaylight will work as an SDN controller server and other SDN controllers will work as SDN controller clients. The OpenDaylight NetIDE project provides portability and cooperation in a single SDN network to achieve multi SDN controller client/server architectures. The main benefits from using the client/server SDN controller architecture is to let network applications that were written for other SDN controllers such as Ryu communicate with OpenDaylight. Also you can dispatch the SDN network management between different SDN controllers based on network needs with smooth integration...