OpenDaylight with OpenLDAP environment federation

Due to different authentication mechanisms and deployment environments, OpenDaylight can integrate with different identity providers to authenticate OpenDaylight's users. OpenLDAP is an application protocol that can be used as identity provider to authenticate and authorize OpenDaylight's users. In this recipe, we will learn how to set up the OpenLDAP server, define the SDN users, group, and configure OpenDaylight to authenticate the users by the OpenLDAP server.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you need a new OpenDaylight distribution, PostMan as REST API client, VirtualBox to set up a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, and vagrant if you use the predefined vagrant file from the recipe...