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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)

OpenDaylight identity manager

OpenDaylight has its own built-in identity manager that manages OpenDaylight users. OpenDaylight authenticates users based on a typical username and password architecture and authorizes the user based on its roles and domain. In this recipe, you will learn how to add a new user, update user information, add a new role, and add a new user domain.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need a new OpenDaylight Beryllium distribution and you will need to download the recipe folder from the book GitHub repository.

How to do it...

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