Real-life deployments are always challenging. Usually, the story goes like this: You have your network devices to manage, a controller that usually provides a normalized interface for your network. Great, and now what? The next logical step is to integrate the SDN controller with overlaying management tools and systems. This Read more…
Migration of OpenDaylight based applications into lighty.io is really straightforward. But sometimes, you have to do more steps to run your application in lighty.io. Especially, if your application is using OSGi/Karaf specific code. For example when it’s using BundleContext to get registered OSGi services in runtime (what is bad practice Read more…
Having worked as an OpenDaylight developer for some time, I participated in many customer projects based on OpenDayght’s Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen releases. OpenDaylight, as a software-defined networking platform has an interesting concept of “model-driven architecture”, where features of the SDN controller are using MD-SAL to interact with each Read more…