OpenDaylight Cookbook

Over 90 recipes to gain the critical skills needed to deploy and manage OpenDaylight-based solutionsAbout This BookThis book will help you to build intelligent SDN networks that save your company time, money, and resourcesFrom eminent authors, learn to address real-world challenges and troubleshoot day-to-day scalability and performance problems faced in OpenDayLight deploymentsThis is the only book that offers you quick fixes to create your own branded OpenDaylightWho This Book Is ForThis 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.What You Will LearnGrasp the fundamentals of OpenDaylightCustomize, authenticate, & authorize in OpenDaylightAnalyse network access control and policyManage datacenter optimizationIntegrate OpenDaylight with third-party frameworksDeploy, configure, and tune OpenDaylight-based solutionsIn DetailOpenDaylight 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.Style and approachWith a diverse range of topics, this will be a guide which will help the readers gain the necessary skills needed to deploy and operate OpenDaylight in your organisation through practical recipes.