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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack

By : Sreenivas Voruganti, Sriram Subramanian
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack

By: Sreenivas Voruganti, Sriram Subramanian

Overview of this book

Networking is one the pillars of OpenStack and OpenStack Networking are designed to support programmability and Software-Defined Networks. OpenStack Networking has been evolving from simple APIs and functionality in Quantum to more complex capabilities in Neutron. Armed with the basic knowledge, this book will help the readers to explore popular SDN technologies, namely, OpenDaylight (ODL), OpenContrail, Open Network Operating System (ONOS) and Open Virtual Network (OVN). The first couple of chapters will provide an overview of OpenStack Networking and SDN in general. Thereafter a set of chapters are devoted to OpenDaylight (ODL), OpenContrail and their integration with OpenStack Networking. The book then introduces you to Open Network Operating System (ONOS) which is fast becoming a carrier grade SDN platform. We will conclude the book with overview of upcoming SDN projects within OpenStack namely OVN and Dragonflow. By the end of the book, the readers will be familiar with SDN technologies and know how they can be leveraged in an OpenStack based cloud.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack
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About the Authors
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Preface

Configuring OpenStack Neutron for ODL


In this section, we will look at the specific steps to enable OpenStack and ODL integration. We will show how users can make a transition from an OpenStack-only setup (Figure 1) to an OpenStack + ODL setup (Figure 2).

The following steps have been tested on the latest release of OpenDaylight, the Beryllium SR2, and the Mitaka release of OpenStack on the Ubuntu 14.04 server. We will assume that ODL and OpenStack are already installed and show the steps to enable their integration.

Installing OpenDaylight features

As mentioned in previous chapters, OpenDaylight has the ability to install only specific features that are needed for implementing a software-defined network. For integration with OpenStack, ODL needs to support OVSDB protocol and Neutron API request processing features. The following steps show how to enable support for these features in ODL:

  1. Follow the steps shown in Chapter 5, Getting Started with OpenDaylight, to install ODL.

  2. Run the karaf command...