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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)

NIC and OpenStack integration

In order to demonstrate the integration of the NIC project with OpenStack, you have to set up the OpenStack environment installing an Ubuntu server 14.04+ on a VM using VirtualBox 4.3+ (preferably 4 core, 32 GB NIC interfaces).

Getting ready

Once you have OpenStack set up on your machine and VirtualBox installed, you are ready to start the configuration.

How to do it...

Perform the following steps:

  1. Install Ubuntu 14.04+ server.
  2. Configure the IP address and the gateway for your two NIC interfaces. One interface should be an NAT address while...