Software Defined Networking Fundamentals

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Course Description

This Software Defined Networking Essentials training course abstracts networking infrastructure away from the actual physical equipment. This allows network system administrators to maintain the networking environment across multiple vendors and hardware, and operating systems and versions. This course is designed to provide Developers and advanced Network Engineers exposure to modeling in Open Source Software Defined Networking (SDN). We first discuss the context of SDN components then progress to show the code created through modeling in OpenDaylight and Tungsten Fabric. This course concludes by writing an application from scratch.

OpenDaylight is an open networking platform that enables SDN and constructs a solid foundation for NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) for all network sizes.

Tungsten Fabric is an open source network virtualization solution for providing connectivity and security for virtual, containerized or bare-metal workloads.

Software Defined Networking Fundamentals disucces

• SDN
• OpenDaylight
• Tungsten Fabric
• Tools such as mininet and wireshark
• Applications using OpenDaylight and Tungstein Fabric APIs

 

After completing the course, students will:

• Have a solid understanding of SDN and the protocols, tools and methods used.
• Understand the openDayLight SDN controller with its APIs and how it fits into SDN as well as the role of Tungsten  Fabric.
• Write applications on-top of the OpenDaylight and Tungsten Fabric APIs.
• Gained understanding of the tools to simulate and debug network topologies.

 

Course Outline

    1. Introduction

1.         Objectives and Goals
2.         Audience
3.         The Linux Foundation
4.         Linux Foundation Training Offerings
5.         Certification Programs and Digital Badging
6.         Course Platform: Ubuntu 16.04
7.         Course Procedures
8.         Course Registration
9.         Labs

    2. Software Defined Networking

1.         Linux Networking and SDN
2.         Networking Primer
3.         Data and Control Plane in SDN
4.         Networking components in SDN
5.         Knowledge Check

    3. Open vSwitch

1.         Introduction
2.         Open vSwitch Components
3.         Open vSwitch installation
4.         Using Open vSwitch
5.         Knowledge Check
6.         Labs **

    4. Simulation and Observation

1.         Objectives
2.         Mininet
3.         Mininet Command Line
4.         Mininet Python API
5.         Wireshark
6.         Knowledge Check
7.         Labs

    5. SDN – History and Evolution

1.         Early Networking
2.         Datacenters and Network Operation
3.         Evolution of Network Programmability
4.         Knowledge Check

    6. Network Programmability

1.         TELNET/CLI
2.         SNMP
3.         NETCONF
4.         YANG
5.         Knowledge Check

    7. OpenFlow

1.         Introduction
2.         OpenFlow Basics and Versions
3.         OpenFlow Protocol
4.         Knowledge Check
5.         Labs

    8. Network Virtualization and Multi-tenancy

1.         Virtualization in the Datacenter and in the Network
2.         Multi-Tenancy
3.         OF-Config
4.         Knowledge Check

    9. Introduction to OpenDaylight

1.         The OpenDaylight Project
2.         Components of OpenDaylight
3.         Project resources
4.         Knowledge Check
5.         Labs

    10. YANG

1.         YANG
2.         yangtools
3.         YANG to Java mapping
4.         YANG in OpenDaylight
5.         Knowledge Check
6.         Labs

    11. Apache Karaf – the OSGi container

1.         OSGi
2.         Apache Karaf Project
3.         OpenDaylight and Karaf
4.         Using Karaf
5.         Karaf settings for OpenDaylight
6.         Knowledge Check
7.         Labs

    12. OpenDaylight Controller and MD-SAL

1.         How the controller evolved
2.         MD-SAL
3.         Brokers and RPC-Calls
4.         The Datastore
5.         Clustering MD-SAL
6.         Plugin Development Workflow
7.         Development environment setup
8.         Knowledge Check
9.         Labs

    13. Observing and Logging OpenDaylight

1.         Observing
2.         Logging
3.         Debugging
4.         Knowledge Check

    14. Writing an Application using OpenDaylight

1.         Labs

    15. Introduction to Tungsten Fabric

1.         The TF Project
2.         TF Community Benefits
3.         TF Architecture and Overlay Network Principles
4.         TF Components
5.         Multi Tenancy
6.         Service Chaining
7.         Monitoring and Analytics
8.         Putting it All Together
9.         Knowledge Check
10.         Labs

    16. TF Architecture Deep Dive

1.         TF Architecture Overview
2.         TF Control Plane
3.         TF Data Plane
4.         TF Security Policy Framework
5.         TF Management
6.         TF Basic Troubleshooting
7.         Knowledge Check

    17. TF Network Services

1.         BGP-as-a-service (BGPaaS)
2.         Broadcast/Multicast
3.         Device Manager
4.         DNS Server
5.         Load Balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS)
6.         vRouter Deployment Models
7.         vRouter Performance
8.         TF and Orchestrators
9.         Knowledge Check
10.         Labs

    18. TF Network Services Configuration

1.         Configuration Techniques
2.         TF API
3.         Virtual Networks Configuration
4.         Network Policy Configuration
5.         vRouter Configuration
6.         Remote Edge
7.         Knowledge Check
8.         Labs

    19. TF And External Networks

1.         External Connectivity Overview
2.         Floating IPs
3.         Simple Virtual Gateway Configuration
4.         BGP EVPN
5.         Knowledge Check
6.         Labs

    20. Observing, Logging, and Analytics in TF

1.         Overview
2.         Traffic Monitoring
3.         Logging
4.         Analytics
5.         Knowledge Check
6.         Labs

    21. Closing and Evaluation Survey

1.         Evaluation Survey

Learning Path

• Please contact us for suggestions.

• Software Defined Networking with OpenDaylight

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, if there is one available. Please check our schedule, or register your interest in joining a course in your area.
• Private onsite Team training also available, please contact us to discuss. We can customise this course to suit your business requirements.