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OpenDaylight install, part 1

OpenDaylight install, part 1

From the course: Practical Software-Defined Networking: 1 SDN and OpenFlow Quick Start

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OpenDaylight install, part 1

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- [Voiceover] In this video I'm gonna show you how to install OpenDaylight on a Docker Container in GNS3, an integrate OpenDayLight with OpenFlow Switches, all running in Docker Containers in GNS3. In a previous video I showed you how to get an Ubuntu Docker Container running within GNS3. So Under "GNS3 Preferences", we can see that a Docker Container exists for Ubuntu. (silent pause) So what I'll do now is drag an Ubuntu Container to the GNS3 Workspace. I'll connect it to an Ethernet Hub and all this is doing, is providing IP connectivity to a Nat Cloud, as well as to other devices in the management network. I will also drag a Firefox Host into the Topology. I'm gonna use that to give us a graphical user interface to the OpenDayLight Controller running on the Docker Container. So I'll cable up the network as follows. You could use an Ethernet Switch rather than a Hub or use a more complex device here if you want to. But what's important is that we have OpenFlow Switches which we'll…

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