In this chapter, we learnt about the different components of OpenStack and OpenDaylight. We started with an overview of OpenStack and its different components, such as networking, identity, storage, and other core components.
OpenStack is a broad, complex project, aimed at for a virtualized datacenter. Therefore, we kept our focus on Networking in OpenStack and the different Plugins that interact with the physical network. In the section that followed, we used DevStack and TryStack to look at examples of OpenStack.
The OpenDaylight project is an open source project founded in 2013 to promote software-defined networking and network functions virtualization. The project provides an abstraction layer that provides both northbound and southbound interfaces, which allows multi-vendor compatibility. We took a high level view of the components of OpenDaylight, as well as using...
