Basic ONOS Tutorial

ONOS provides the control plane for a software-defined network (SDN), managing network components, such as switches and links, and running software programs or modules to provide communication services to end hosts and neighboring networks. ONOS applications and use cases often consist of customized communication routing, management, or monitoring services for software-defined networks.

If you're new to OpenDaylight environment and try to follow the getting started guide at the official documentation page, you'll spend hours. In the worst case, it might take your entire weekend. :-) This short tutorial is a 'working' version of the official development getting started guide. Note that versions do matter. I've spent hours trying to get everything work for Nitrogen before I read this thread. It's still broken for Nitrogen. This guide is based on OpenDaylight Carbon.

Sometimes it's handy to have some stuff packed in a small RPI board e.g. for demonstration purposes and the like. The following short tutorial is about preparing a 'network' box, consisting Mininet and related stuff. You will need a RPI2 or RPI3, with Ubuntu 16.04 server installed.

OpenDaylight (ODL) is a modular open platform for customizing and automating networks of any size and scale. The OpenDaylight Project arose out of the SDN movement, with a clear focus on network programmability. It was designed from the outset as a foundation for commercial solutions that address a variety of use cases in existing network environments.

Mininet-Wifi setup.

Mininet provides a virtual test bed and development environment for SDN. Mininet networks run real code including standard Unix/Linux network applications as well as the real Linux kernel and network stack. Mininet provides an extensible Python API for network creation and experimentations. Ref: [MININET - Open Networking Foundation]