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Updated DevStack OpenDaylight VM Image for OpenStack IceHouse

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Here is an updated Fedora 20 image for building OpenStack Icehouse and OpenDaylight. ODL is now merged into the upcoming OpenStack Icehouse release so now you can install ODL directly from OpenStack trunk. The updated image comes from Kyle Mestery who was primarily responsible for getting the OpenStack/OpenDaylight merge and navigating the process. Thanks also to Andrew Grimberg from the …

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OpenDaylight OpenStack Integration with DevStack on Fedora

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The following is a walk through of the OVSDB project within OpenDaylight for OpenStack integration. There are a couple of bugs so it is not for the faint of heart. It is intended for those looking to get their development environment up and running. We will have videos and what not walking through the installation and code reviews of the …

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Installing OpenStack ML2 Neutron Plugin with DevStack on Fedora

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OpenStack networking is tricky. This is primarily because programmable distributed systems are relatively new beyond the rigid L2/L3 control protocols we have used for the past 20 years. What I am consistently impressed with about OpenStack networking is the innovative network services that systems programmers are developing using APIs and virtual switching. Of course most vendors have a plugin for …

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Installing Mininet, OpenDaylight and Open vSwitch

The easiest way to get started with a quick SDN lab image is using the Mininet image that is now managed by the ONLAB which is part of the ONRC. They do a nice job keeping the images maintained. Ideally the will incorporate ODL into the image soon since the ODL GUI is great for folks to get started with …

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OpenDaylight Maven and OSGI Dev Notes

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Prior to OpenDaylight I had only used the ODGI framework with David Ericson’s Beacon contorller. I wanted to dump some of my notes from code hacking over the past couple of weeks. Most of the time has been spent getting used to OSGI and Maven. After the Maven and OSGI overviews, I list my dev notes for setting OSGI log …

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Pre-Built OpenDaylight VM Images

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While there is still some uncertainty on the platform details of OpenDaylight, there isn’t uncertainty in my mind, where I will be devoting my time for the rest of the year. I put up a couple of Pre-Built OpenDaylight VM Image, made up of the two proposed bootstrap controllers and OpenFlow tools, on a couple of VM images. I split …

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Importing OpenDaylight Into Eclipse

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This is a quick video for importing OpenDaylight into Eclipse for development. You need to build OpenDaylight with Maven prior to importing it into Eclipse. Once you build ODL from the CLI, you can either run it from there for learning OpenFlow or getting to know the OpenDaylight controller or go on to importing the controller into Eclipse. For those …

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OpenDaylight OpenFlow Tutorial

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The OpenDaylight project was announced this week and they already have working controller code up on a repositry. Under the controller hood, looks to be the OSGI framework originally forked from David Erickson’s Beacon controller. It’s a simple tutorial to help kickstart the dependencies and getting a chance to learn how instantiating OpenFlow flow rules work. This was the first …

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