OpenDaylight Cookbook

Deploy and operate software-defined networking in your organization

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Mathieu Lemay, Alexis de Talhouët and Jamie Goodyear

Paid access

|Feb 2025

E-Book €30.99Institutions €130.95

Description

Over 90 recipes to gain the critical skills needed to deploy and manage OpenDaylight-based solutions

Key Features

This book will help you to build intelligent SDN networks that save your company time, money, and resources
From eminent authors, learn to address real-world challenges and troubleshoot day-to-day scalability and performance problems faced in OpenDayLight deployments
This is the only book that offers you quick fixes to create your own branded OpenDaylight

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

Grasp the fundamentals of OpenDaylight
Customize, authenticate, & authorize in OpenDaylight
Analyse network access control and policy
Manage datacenter optimization
Integrate OpenDaylight with third-party frameworks
Deploy, configure, and tune OpenDaylight-based solutions

Who this book is for

This book is for experienced network administrators and IT professionals who are using or deploying SDN/OpenDaylight and are looking to gain expertise in building SDN solutions for organizations.