OpenDaylight is an open source SDN platform developed under the Linux Foundation. It aims to promote adoption of SDN through an industry-supported common platform. OpenDaylight has over 31,000 commits from nearly 700 contributors, representing over 2.6 million lines of Java code. It is used in over 150 commercial deployments and integrates with OpenStack for network virtualization and NFV services. Future releases will improve scaling, performance, and application integration through projects like Genius and NetVirt.

1. Phil Robb, Sr. Director Of Technical Operations, OpenDaylight
Collaborating with OpenDaylight for a
Network-Enabled Cloud

2. What is OpenDaylight?
OpenDaylight is an Open Source Software project under the Linux
Foundation with the goal of furthering the adoption and innovation of
Software Defined Networking (SDN) through the creation of a
common industry supported platform
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Code Acceptance Community
To create a robust, extensible,
open source code base that
covers the major common
components required to build an
SDN solution
To get broad industry acceptance
amongst vendors and users
• Using OpenDaylight code directly or
through vendor products
• Vendors using OpenDaylight code as
part of commercial products
To have a thriving and growing
technical community contributing
to the code base, using code in
commercial products, and adding
value above, below and around.

3. OpenDaylight:
Bringing the Industry Together
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4. OpenDaylight as a Platform

5. In a Nutshell, OpenDaylight…
... has had 31,388 commits made by 696 contributors representing
2,614,066 lines of code
... is mostly written in Java with an average number of source code
comments
... has a well established, mature codebase maintained by a very large
development team with stable Y-O-Y commits
... took an estimated 764 years of effort (COCOMO model)
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6. OpenDaylight
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• The biggest networking OSS project by any measure (www.openhub.net):
 150+ known* commercial deployments by 20+ companies
 SW / Equipment vendors, SPs, …
 Networking, entertainment, energy management, …
* = reported to Linux Foundation
ODL: 2,614,066
DPDK: 1,662,113
Contrail: 739,905
ONOS: 526,549
Lines of Code
ODL: 696
DPDK: 262
Contrail: 253
ONOS: 198
OVS: 326
Contributors
ODL: 31,388
DPDK: 4,832
Contrail: 12,307
ONOS: 7,992
OVS: 12,464
Commits
OVS:306,888
Floodlight: 86
RYU:95
FD.io: 90
Floodlight: 2,722
RYU:2,783
FD.io: 1,418
Floodlight: 93,198

7. OpenDaylight Deployments
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8. Why is OpenDaylight
important to OpenStack?

9. Desires Have Changed
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I want to build my app or
service and have it run well
Infrastructure automation is finally
beyond banging on rocks and cups
with string
Things are still being built and
organized bottoms-up. HOW
DO THESE PIECES FIT
TOGETHER?
I want my apps to easily run across
HV-Containers, DCs, Clouds.
Networking still seems FUBAR.
Networking is complex...
But I don’t have anyway to
communicate with it in PaaS
Why can’t the infrastructure just figure out how
to program itself?
What actually happened when
my WL ran?

10. Objective: Simple-to-Deploy Apps and
Services
Infrastructure Software
Management
Orchestration
Analytics, Controllers
Application Software
SaaS + Integration
Operations
Embedded Software
Route, Switch, Appliance
Workflow
and Intent
Programmability
Network
Intelligence,
Guidance
Statistics,
States, Objects
and Events
SERVICES
ORCHESTRATION
NETWORK
ANALYTICS
APPLICATIONS
&
PaaS
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11. The Whole Stack Open Source Building Blocks
11*New to LinuxFoundation in 2015/2016
PaaSCloudInfra&ToolingInfrastructure
Additional
PaaS platforms
Open-O
CI/CD
PaNDA
*
*
*
*
* * *
Hardware
Network Control
Operating Systems
VIM Management System
Orchestration
Application Layer / App Server
IO Abstraction & Feature Path
Evolve/Integrate/Install/Test
Network Data Analytics

12. What Must Be Managed in a Network…
chain-in
chain-out
EP:1
EP:2 EP:3
EP:4
Contracts
Match:*
Action:
chain: vFW-gb
chain-in
Match:*a
Action:
chain: vFW-bg
chain-out
vFW
EP1
EP2
EP3
EP4
GBP:blueGBP:green
EP1
EP2
EP3
EP4
VPP VPP
ASA
1000v
VPP
br-gb br-bg
EP1
EP2
EP3
EP4
UCS-B
M460vmnic0 vmnic1
UCS 6200
eth20 eth20
CPU MEM STG
Policy View
Service View
Virtual Topology
Physical Topology
Resource View
Application View App GoRouter Message Bus GoRouter
Everything below
this Line should be
a “NO-STACK
WORLD”
Where’s BW?
IP
Network
IP
Network
IP
Network
IP
Network
IP
Network
IP
Network
App
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13. The Ability To Spin Up
Compute & Storage Nodes
At Will Is Pointless If They
Can’t Be Connected
Intelligently

14. Real World Use Cases with ODL & OpenStack
• Key Challenge: OpenStack Neutron by itself provides a tenant-facing
cloud networking API but is limited what it exposes to cloud operators.
NFV requires significant new functionality (e.g. Service Function
Chaining)
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ODL Case Studies:
• AT&T
• China Mobile
• Orange
• Massachusetts Open Cloud
ODL Use Cases:
• Network Virtualization for OpenStack
• Multi-tenant Network
• NFV Telco Services
• Policy and Intent
• OVS Virtualization for Software Switches
• SFC Support with a Virtualized Environment

15. Benefits of OpenDaylight in Your Cloud
1. OpenDaylight Sees and Manages the Network End-to-End
• Within a datacenter, across datacenters, to other public/private clouds, across
Campus, Metro, or long haul WAN links
• Is aware of physical underlay as well as overlay
• Implements/maintains network policy across virtual/physical boundaries
2. Supports many protocols across heterogeneous networking equipment
3. Provides instrumentation/monitoring of network
• Allows for reactive traffic shaping based on conditions
4. Integrates with “higher level” orchestrators/managers
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16. OpenStack / ODL Integration Using OF/OVSDB
• OpenStack Neutron:
• Plugin: Modular Layer 2 plugin
• networking-odl:
• ODL L3 plugin
• Drivers fro LBaaS, FWaaS, VPNaaS,…
• OpenDaylight:
• Neutron northbound
• Openstack serivce providers:
• ovsdb/netwirt, GBP, VTN, Lisp Flow Mapper, NIC
• Soutbound protocol:
• Openflow, Ovsdb, Netconf
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17. OpenStack / ODL Integration: “Fast Data Stack”
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• OpenDaylight
• GBP Neutron Mapper
• GBP Renderer Manager enhancements
• VPP Renderer
• Virtual Bridge Domain Mgr / Topology
Manager
• FD.io
• HoneyComb – Enhancements
• VPP – Enhancements
• CSIT – VPP component tests
• OPNFV
• Installer: Integration of VPP into APEX
• System Test: FuncTest and Yardstick
system test application to FDS
See also:
FDS Architecture: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/fds/OpenStack-ODL-VPP+integration+design+and+architecture

18. What Makes OpenDaylight Different?
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SAL/Core
Protocol
Plugin
Netconf
Client
Protocol
Plugin
Southbound
RESTCONF Connector...
ApplicationNetconf
Server
Northbound
RESTCONF ... Application
Protocol Plugins/Adapters
Controller Core
Controller Apps/Services
REST
...
... OSS/BSS, External Apps
Network Devices

19. From Layers to Microservices
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Controller
SAL/Core
Protocol
Plugin
Protocol
Plugin
...
Application ... Application
Northbound API
Southbound API
Controller
ProcessingProcessing
SAL/Core
Application
Protocol
Plugin
Model
API
Application
(Processing)
API
Model

20. OpenDaylight Software Architecture
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SAL/Core
Netconf
Client
Protocol
Plugin
... Netconf
ServerRESTCONFApplication Application
REST
Data Store Messaging Core
Apps/Services
Yang Model
Data RPCs, Notifications

21. MD-SAL:
Connecting Providers and Consumers
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Core
Apps/Services
SAL/Core
Netconf
Client
Protocol
Plugin
... Netconf
ServerRESTCONFProvider
App
Consumer
App

22. MD-SAL:
Connecting Providers and Consumers
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Core
Apps/Services
SAL/Core
Netconf
Client
Protocol
Plugin
... Netconf
ServerRESTCONFProvider
App
Consumer
App

23. Beryllium:
Enhanced OpenStack Integration
• OpenDaylight Features
• Neutron API enhancements to enable use of ML2 Plug-in
• Full support for OpenStack HA and Clustering
• Improved security with HW-VTEP and efficient security group configuration
via OpenFlow vs IPTables
• OpenStack BGP-VPN support
• Benefits
• Enhanced robustness and security for OpenStack over OpenDaylight
deployments
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24. What’s Coming In Boron
• Better Scaling
• Better Performance
• Enhanced HA & Clustering
• Evolution of the OpenDaylight ML2 Driver
• App-agnostic app composition pipeline (GBP, SFC, VPN, Etc.)
• New Features/Projects….
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25. What’s Coming In Boron - Features
• Genius:
• Provides generic network interfaces, utilities & services
• Creates composition pipeline for ODL applications
• Eliminates resource allocation interference between ODL apps
• NetVirt:
• Open vSwitch-based virtualization for software switches
• Hardware VTEP for hardware switches
• Service Function Chaining support
• Yang IDE
Provides an Eclipse plugin that can be used to view and edit YANG model files
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26. What’s Coming In Boron (Continued)
• OCP Plugin
• ETSI standard protocol for control and management of Remote Radio Head
(RRH) equipment
• Plugin allows applications and controller services to interact with RRHs using
OCP
• Cardinal (OpenDaylight Monitoring as a Service)
• Extends the following for a remote NMS:
• OpenDaylight MIB (Management Information Base) defined in OID experimental
• ODL diagnostics to be exposed across SNMP
• Integrates OpenDaylight TSDR and Centinel for monitoring data and analytics
• ODL diagnostics across northbound for autonomous notifications (SNMP Traps)
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27. How to Get Started:
• Download directly from OpenDaylight.org.
• Find a Solution or Provider
ODL is the only open source SDN platform with a robust ecosystem of
products, solutions, distributions, and other providers who can help you
deploy open SDN in your network.
• Getting Started Guide
A comprehensive guide for newbies and advanced users to learn about, install
and deploy OpenDaylight.
http://www.opendaylight.org/start
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28. Thank you
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