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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack
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Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack

by Sriram Subramanian, Sreenivas Voruganti
October 2016
Intermediate to advanced
216 pages
4h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Intent framework

Let's now install intent to communicate directly between the hosts. The ONOS intent framework allows operators to define policies using a high-level abstraction or language. It is the responsibility of the ONOS controller to translate those policies into a network configuration. This helps create networking constructs that are vendor and device-agnostic, while at the same time, it simplifies day-to-day operations. We will see that the semantics for configuration are based on intent rather than on the mechanism of the desired configuration:

  1. Uninstall the switch application and add host-intent in ONOS, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Check the ONOS GUI to confirm intents are installed:

  3. Check the OVS table to verify programming ...
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