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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)

Introduction

The NIC provides some features to enable the controller to manage and direct network services and resources based on intent. Intents can be defined as "what" to do, not "how" to do it, it's directly related to the user's desires. Intents are described to the controller through a new northbound interface, which provides generalized and abstracted policy semantics instead of OpenFlow-like rules. This project includes integration with OpenStack neutron, Service Function Chaining (SFC), and Group Based Policy (GBP). The NIC project uses the existing OpenDaylight network service functions and southbound plugins to control both virtual and physical network devices.

The NIC provides these features:

  • odl-nic-core-hazelcast: Provides a distributed intent mapping service, implemented using hazelcast (used to share data in an in-memory data grid...