October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 10m
English
Now let us bring the OpenFlow controller to the configuration to manage the OVS. We will use a controller implemented on Ryu (pronounced ree-yooh), a component-based software-defined networking framework. Ryu provides software components with well-defined northbound Python APIs and it supports OpenFlow protocol towards southbound. Refer to http://osrg.github.io/ryu/.

Figure 2: Ryu SDN framework
We will continue the example from the previous section, where we had two namespaces and two hosts. Let us first install the ryu SDN controller framework:
pip command.
$ sudo pip install ryu
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