Develop, Deploy and Deliver with NetIDE: An Integrated Service Level Network Programming Framework

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1 Develop, Deploy and Deliver with NetIDE: An Integrated Service Level Network Programming Framework Matteo Gerola, Roberto Doriguzzi Corin (Create-net) Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez (Telefónica) This work is partially supported by the EC FP7 NetIDE project, G.A

2 Outline NetIDE framework overview The Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment The Network Engine Companion tools Source code repository Contribution to open-source communities Future plans Demonstration

3 The NetIDE framework NetIDE aims at supporting the whole development lifecycle of network apps in a platformindependent fashion: Integrated SDN development environment Covering the full lifetime of SDN applications It brings all the goodies of Software Design and Development to Networking: Platform independence Code re-usability Developer tools (debugger, profiler, logger, etc.)

4 Develop, deploy and test Automatically deploy the SDN applications Develop the code and configure the topology Test and debug the applications

5 The Integrated Environment Code Editors (PyDev, CDT, Java) Topology editor Interface with the Network Engine and tools Access to the Mininet CLI Mininet CLI Code Editors Graphical Topology Editor Tools for debugging and inspecting of the control channel

6 The NetIDE protocol permits Client/Server SDN controller paradigm of coordination between the layers ONF Network Application s modules are given the runtime environment they expect in the client controller Multi-controller support (ONOS, OpenDaylight, Ryu, Floodlight, ) Backend: southbound plugin Core Layer: provides a controllerindependent means to resolve conflicts between apps, interfaces with the tools Shim Layer: northbound plugin The Network Engine

7 The topology editor Graphical editor to create and edit network topologies Optionally it can import the underlying topology from the NetIDE Network Engine A topology generator outputs a configuration file for Mininet

8 Runtime management GUI Start/stop the VM Configure/start/stop the Network Engine Start/stop SDN applications

9 Developer tools Enabling the developer to systematically test, profile, and tune their Network App Logger: tracing capabilities to judge the performance of the deployed Network App Garbage Collector: Cleans the switches memory from unused flow rules Model Checker: systematically exercises app behaviour and flag actions that lead to violations of the desired safety properties Profiler: judging the impact of network failures on the Network App behaviour Debugger: supports debug of packet processing (OFReplay, packet inspection and flow table checking)

10 Github repository Source code of IDE, Network Engine and Tools are publicly available on Github under Eclipse Public License v1.0 Usecases contains implementations of target scenarios that validate the NetIDE framework.

11 Eclipse Marketplace NetIDE s tools for Eclipse are available on the Eclipse Marketplace netide

12 OpenDaylight project proposal NetIDE is an OpenDaylight Project since the 26th of June, _Proposals:NetIDE The NetIDE s ODL Shim shipped with OpenDaylight Beryllium (Feb 2016)

13 Contribution to Floodlight NetIDE has been recently included among the authors and contributors of the Floodlight Controller NetIDE s architectural concepts ported to Floodlight: driving the execution flow of the controller: i.e. delivering the network event only to specific applications in a specific order (overriding the controller s default behaviour) the run to completion problem, i.e. understanding when a network event (PACKET_IN) has been completely processed by each single application running on top of the controller

14 Future plans Continue support of the NetIDE project within ODL mid-term: ODL Boron Continue development of the IDE Enhance features in the Eclipse Marketplace distribution Going beyond ODL ONOS as a shim (under testing, available on github) Going beyond OpenFlow NetIDE intermediate protocol supports netconf Implement netconf support in the Core

15 Demo!