OpenDaylight Cookbook

OpenDaylight Cookbook

Explore how to move from legacy networking to software-defined networking

Mathieu Lemay

Alexis de Talhouet

Jamie Goodyear

Rashmi Pujar

Mohamed El-Serngawy

Yrineu Rodrigues

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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OpenDaylight Cookbook

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Credits

About the Authors

Mathieu Lemay is the CEO of Inocybe Technologies, a company founded in 2005, a SDN pioneer specializing in real-world OpenDaylight-based deployment solutions, training, and services, and the CTO of Civimetrix Telecom, a company deploying open access networks.

Mathieu has more than 20 years of experience in information technology. At the age of 10, he was programming C++, ADA, and x86 ASM and then got involved in networking from the early bulletin board systems to first commodity internet.

He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering with a focus on wireless and optical telecommunications. Inocybe Technologies has been a member of OpenDaylight since June 2013, and Mathieu is currently a committer to the docs and reservation projects. After nine years of being CEO, Mathieu has acquired intensive knowledge of business administration.

Alexis de Talhouet has always been interested in the way information is transmitted through a network. His background in computer science and networking combined with an interest in new technology naturally guided him to the SDN field.

Jamie Goodyear is an open source advocate, Apache developer, and computer systems analyst with Savoir Technologies. He has designed, critiqued, and supported architectures for large organizations worldwide.

Jamie holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jamie has worked in systems administration, software quality assurance, and senior software developer roles for businesses ranging from small start-ups to international corporations. He has attained committer status on Apache Karaf, Servicemix, and Felix and is a project management committee member on Apache Karaf. His first print publication was co-authoring Packt Publishing's Instant OSGi Starter, followed by co-authoring Packt Publishing's Learning Apache Karaf, and Packt Publishing's Apache Karaf Cookbook.

Currently, he divides his time between providing high-level reviews of architectures, mentoring developers and administrators with SOA deployments, and helping grow the OpenDaylight and Apache communities.

To my fiancee, Laura, thank you for saying yes.

To my brother, Jason, you're always there supporting my endeavors, even when it eats into movie/game nights.

I'd like to thank my family and friends for all of their support over the years. I'd like to also thank all the open source communities that have made OpenDaylight possible.

Rashmi Pujar is interested in new technology trends that are shaping today's networks. With a background in networking and telecommunications, she finds ample opportunities at Inocybe to engage her interests.

Mohamed El-Serngawy has experience in virtualization platforms and security, and his curiosity about SDN and cloud computing led him to join Inocybe. He is also interested in software vulnerabilities and playing soccer.

Yrineu Rodrigues has three years of experience in software-defined networking, with a solid background in algorithms and programming languages. Yrineu works for Instituto Atlantico on SDN projects and is a project leader/committer on the OpenDaylight project (Network Intent Composition - NIC).

About the Reviewer

Pradeeban Kathiravelu is an open source evangelist. He is a PhD researcher at INESC-ID Lisboa/Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, and Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. He is a fellow of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Degree in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), researching a software-defined approach for quality of service and data quality in multi-tenant clouds.

He holds a master of science degree in Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC), from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He also holds a first class bachelor of science of engineering (honors) degree, majoring in computer science and engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

His research interests include software-defined networking (SDN), distributed systems, cloud computing, web services, big data in biomedical informatics, and data mining. He is very interested in free and open source software development and has been an active participant in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program since 2009, as a student and as a mentor.

I would like to thank Prof Luis Veiga, my MSc and PhD advisor, for his continuous guidance and encouragement throughout my five years at Instituto Superior Tecnico.

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Table of Contents

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

OpenDaylight Fundamentals

Introduction

Connecting OpenFlow switches

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Mounting a NETCONF device

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

GET data store

Invoking RPC

Deleting a netconf-connector

Browsing data models with YANGUI

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Basic distributed switching

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Configuring L2Switch

Bonding links using LACP

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Changing user authentication

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenDaylight clustering

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Virtual Customer Edge

Introduction

Leveraging UNI manager for E2E WAN links

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Linking multiple networks across MPLS VPN

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using USC secure channels to work with devices

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using machine-to-machine protocol for Internet of Things

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Controlling the cable modem termination system

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Dynamic Interconnects

Introduction

Using the SNMP plugin with OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

Managing an Ethernet switch in an SDN Environment

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Configuring the Ethernet switch using the REST API

Multivendor support

Automating legacy devices

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Remote configuration for OpenFlow switches

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Dynamically updating the network device YANG model

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Securing network bootstrapping infrastructures

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Providing virtual private cloud services for enterprises

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Managing SXP-capable devices using OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

There's more...

Using OpenDaylight as an SDN controller server

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Network Virtualization

Introduction

Network virtualization with OpenFlow

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Integrating with OpenStack neutron

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenStack integration with OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Edge-based virtual networks

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Service function chaining

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Virtual Core and Aggregation

Introduction

Configuring and retrieving BGP information

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Managing and visualizing topologies using BGP-LS

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Adding and removing BGP routes to/from the network

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring and retrieving PCEP information

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Managing LSP tunnels with PCEP

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Network-wide programming with PCEP

Getting ready

How to do it...

Getting BGP and PCEP statistics using the Java management extension

Getting ready

How to do it...

Enabling TCP MD5 authentication for secure BGP and PCEP connectivity

Getting ready

How to do it...

BGP component configuration using the OpenConfig implementation

Getting ready

How to do it...

Implementing new extensions to the BGP and PCEP protocols

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Intent and Policy Networking

Introduction

Simple firewall with NIC

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

MPLS intents and label management

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Traffic redirection with intents

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

End-to-end intents

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

NIC and OpenStack integration

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

QoS operation with intents

Getting ready

How to do it...

Verification

How it works...

LOG action using NIC

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

VTN renderer using NIC

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenDaylight Container Customizations

Introduction

Reconfiguring SSH access to OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating your own branded OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Customizing your OpenDaylight repositories

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Customizing your start up applications

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Installing OpenDaylight as a service

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Creating your own custom OpenDaylight command using the Maven archetype

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

See also

Deploying applications using features

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using JMX to monitor and administer OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Setting up Apache Karaf Decanter to monitor OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Authentication and Authorization

Introduction

OpenDaylight identity manager

Getting ready

How to do it...

See also

Basic filtering for RBAC in OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Token-based authentication in OpenDaylight

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenDaylight source IP authorization

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenDaylight with OpenLDAP environment federation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

OpenDaylight with FreeIPA environment federation

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Preface

OpenDaylight is an open source project aiming to be a common tool across the networking industry for enterprises, service providers, and manufacturers. This provides a highly available multiprotocol infrastructure geared to build and manage software-defined networking (SDN) deployments. Based on a Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer, the platform is extensible and allows users to create applications for communicating with a wide variety of southbound protocols and hardware.

In other words, OpenDaylight is a framework used to solve networking-related use cases in both SDN and network function virtualization (NFV) domains.

The recipes in these chapters will present fundamental use cases one can solve using OpenDaylight.

A common and widely used network emulator, Mininet, is required to perform various recipes in this book. Prior to any recipe, as a requirement, you will need a running version of Mininet.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, OpenDaylight Fundamentals, talks about the OpenDaylight platform. The goal of the platform is to enable the adoption of SDN and create a solid base for NFV.

Chapter 2, Virtual Customer Edge, talks about virtual customer edge, which can connecting network entity endpoints to each other and integrating them within the network by allowing some access policy rules.

Chapter 3, Dynamic Interconnects, focuses on establishing dynamic connections among network devices within the SDN environment.

Chapter 4, Network Virtualization, covers some usage of network virtualization provided by OpenDaylight.

Chapter 5, Virtual Core and Aggregation, focuses on fundamental use cases for BGP and PCEP using OpenDaylight SDN controller.

Chapter 6, Intent and Policy Networking, covers how Network Intent Composition (NIC) provides some features to enable the controller to manage and direct network services and resources based on intent.

Chapter 7, OpenDaylight Container Customizations, dedicates the recipes to network engineers, systems builders, and integrators—the people who