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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)

Securing network bootstrapping infrastructures

In a scaled SDN network, certificate-based authentication and key distribution are a challenge. The OpenDaylight SNBI project provides a zero-touch approach to securely establishing communication between the network device and OpenDaylight as an SDN controller. Any network device that leverages the IEEE 802.1AR - 2009 standard for secure device identification can securely bootstrap the communication with OpenDaylight. OpenDaylight and network devices will automatically discover each other and then get the IP address assigned to each other, exchange key certificates, and finally establish secure IP connectivity.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need three Ubuntu 14.04 hosts,...