What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to SDN - Transformation from Legacy to SDN, explains SDN basics and covers SDN controllers and the position of OpenDaylight in the SDN ecosystem. It will help transform a traditional, legacy networking mind into an SDN mindset.  It also covers a translation of how legacy network features, terms, protocols, and functions such as routing, switching, VLANs, and link aggregations are implemented in SDN.

Chapter 2, Overview of OpenDaylight,  is about the OpenDaylight project and its components, history, and versions. OpenDaylight is a complex project based on multiple components that are tightly integrated. The aim is to make you familiar with the architecture of OpenDaylight in order to have a better understanding of how OpenDaylight works and the logic behind it.

Chapter 3, OpenDaylight Installation and Deployment, provides step-by-step installation instructions for OpenDaylight in a virtual environment. You will learn how to install it from scratch and in a Docker container.

Chapter 4, Building a Virtual SDN Test Lab with Virtual Switches, helps you build a virtual lab using mininet virtual-SDN-enabled switches.

Chapter 5, Basic Networking with OpenDaylight, is dedicated to performing basic network operations using OpenDaylight and SDN. You will learn basic networking operations and managing the fabric using OpenDaylight.

Chapter 6, Overview of OpenDaylight Applications, is about OpenDaylight applications. You will learn about OpenDaylight application programming using model-driven SAL (MD-SAL) in very basic steps.

Chapter 7, Building SDN Applications for OpenDaylight, helps you build an SDN application on top of OpenDaylight. We will go through SDN-based network access control (NAC) to understand how to hook up to OpenDaylight and take control of packet flow decision process.

Chapter 8, Network Function Virtualization NFV, gets you familiar with the role of OpenDaylight in an NFV ecosystem. You will learn about network function virtualization (NFV) basics, the OPNFV framework, and existing NFV projects. You will also learn about service chaining, which is one of the main use cases of SDN and OpenDaylight.

Chapter 9, Building a Software-Driven Data Center with OpenDaylight, summarizes and uses all the learning of this book by integrating it into a responsive software-driven data center use case. You will learn how to integrate and automate networking tasks from OpenStack to OpenDaylight, as well as understanding the role of network orchestration in a service-provider network by evolving OSS and BSS.