The Cisco Open SDN Controller is based on the OpenDaylight SDN Controller and meets the need of Service Providers for a flexible, powerful, and commercially-supported multi-protocol controller. In this 60 minute session we will give an overview of the Cisco Open SDN Controller, explaining how the controller is packaged and the features it supports, and showing examples of applications that are supported by the controller. We will also outline the new features and applications that will be introduced in the next release of the controller. Taught by Giles Heron.

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Building Applications on Cisco Open
SDN Controller
DevNet 1012
Giles Heron – Principal Engineer

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Agenda
• The Cisco Open SDN
Controller
• “Just for the YANG of it”
• Creating Java apps inside the
Cisco Open SDN Controller
• Creating RESTCONF apps
using the Cisco Open SDN
Controller
• Q&A

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The Cisco Open SDN Controller
• Based on OpenDaylight Helium
• Packaged as a Virtual Machine
• Key MD-SAL features pre-installed
– OpenFlow, NETCONF/YANG, BGP/PCEP, etc.
• Integrated User Interface
• Supports single-node and 3-node cluster
• In EFT as of last week
• See the /dev/innovate pod here in DevNet
A commercial distribution of the OpenDaylight SDN Controller

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• Open platform for
network
programmability
• Enables SDN for
networks at any size
and scale
• New “Helium” release
delivers new user
interface and a much
simpler and
customizable
installation process
• Users can add value at
any layer (Apps,
Network Services, SB
Plugins)
OpenDaylight Controller
Cisco Contributions

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Open SDN Controller 1.0 Release Content
Community Support
Cisco Supported
“HELIUM”
Open SDN Controller
Common Content
Incremental Cisco
ValuePrecluded
OpenDaylight
Content
SDNi
Defense4all
PacketCable
PCMM
VTN Project
OpenContrail
Plugin
SNMP4SDN
AAA
BGPCEP
Controller
DLUX
Group Policy
L2 Switch
LISP Flow
Mapping
Openflow
Plugin
OVSDB
Secure Network
Bootstrap Infra
Service
Function
Chaining
Yang Tools
MD-SAL
AD-SAL
Log Aggregation
Metrics
Aggregation
MonitoringBasic
Clustering
Centralized
Admin
OVA Distribution
Samples
One Click Clustering

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SupportLearn / Build Validate Sell / Monetize
SDK on DevNet
• Getting Started Guides
• Reference Guides
• Code samples
• Videos
• Etc
Integration Points
• NB Rest APIs
• Network Service JAVA APIs
• OpenFlow 1.0 and 1.3
Interfaces
• NetConf / YANG Interface
• BGPLS Interface
• PCEP Interface
• OVSDB Interface
Community and Pay-As-
You Go Support
Developer Sandbox
Interop Validation Testing
• Application Specific Test Plans
• For Fee Testing
• Successful IVT completion allows
use of Cisco Compatible logo
Solution Partner Program
• Solution Marketplace listing
App Store (future)
• Streamlined sales and
delivery of 3rd party apps
(light-weight version of
Solutions Plus program)
Mandatory Coordinated
Customer Support
3rd Party Developer Enablement (DevNet Plan)
Cisco Open SDN Controller Developer Lifecycle

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“Just for the YANG of it”
• YANG is a data modeling language
– Documented in RFC6020
– Designed to model NETCONF data (see RFC6241)
• OpenDaylight’s MD-SAL is “Model Driven Service Abstraction Layer”
– “Model” == YANG Model
• OpenDaylight contains over 100 YANG models
– YANG is used as our IDL
• Southbound plugins described by YANG Models
– NETCONF plugin learns models from connected devices at run-time
Everything in MD-SAL is YANG modeled

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Java apps inside Cisco Open SDN Controller
• The controller creates Java APIs from YANG models at run-time
– YANG model maps to Java classes (class per container, list, typedef etc.)
• Java APIs designed for performance
– DTOs are immutable (write once/read many)
– APIs are asynchronous (no need to spawn a thread to wait for each data item)
• Apps packaged as Karaf features
– .kar files in the controller’s “deploy” directory will auto-install

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Auto-Populating NCS inventory from BGP-LS Topology
MPLS-TE Network
MD-SAL
BGP-LS
LinkstateTopology
RESTCONF
BGP-LS Topology
Exporter
BGP-LS RIB
NETCONF
NCS Inventory
Creator
BGP-LS

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Tunnel Programming API using NCS via NETCONF/YANG
MPLS-TE Network
MD-SAL
LSP Config
App
RESTCONF
IOS-XR NED
PostMan Collection
CLI (over ssh)
Tunnel Programming API
NETCONF

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RESTCONF apps using Cisco Open SDN Controller
• The controller generates RESTCONF APIs from YANG models at run-time
– YANG model structure maps to RESTCONF URLs
– HTTP GET to read data, POST/PUT/DELETE to write, POST to run RPCs
• RESTCONF supports both XML and JSON
– Most devs prefer JSON (native to JavaScript, super-easy from Python etc.)
• Performance is lower than Java APIs due to serialisation, context switches etc.
• Examples:
– /restconf/config/opendaylight-inventory:nodes
– …nodes/node/foo/yang-ext:mount/model:container
– /restconf/operational/network-topology:network-topology
– /restconf/operations/coffee-maker:make-coffee

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