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OpenDaylight Cookbook

By : Rashmi Pujar, ICARO CAMELO, Yrineu Rodrigues
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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)

Service function chaining

End-to-end services usually require various service functions, network services such as load balancers or firewalls, as well as application-specific services. To provide the ability to spawn dynamic service function chains, less coupled to network topology and physical resources, the SFC project of OpenDaylight was created.

Leveraging VM and/or container networking, we can efficiently create network services as needed, having the service chain completely modular and dynamic.

In this recipe, we will perform a demonstration of the capability of the SFC project using the sfc103 demo provided within their repository:

https://github.com/opendaylight/sfc/tree/release/beryllium-sr2/sfc-demo/sfc103.

The global network topology for this recipe is as follows:

The following recipe has been tested with OpenDaylight Beryllium SR2 release. It is not guaranteed that...