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

About This Book

* 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

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.

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

In Detail

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.

Style and approach

With 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.