README.md

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lighty.io is a Software Development Kit powered by OpenDaylight to support, ease & accelerate the development of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions in Java. Developed by PANTHEON.tech.

It utilizes core OpenDaylight components, which are available as a set of libraries and are adapted to run in a plain Java SE environment.

This branch maintains compatibility with OpenDaylight Aluminium, release.

Features

• Removed Karaf: Having Java SE as a runtime, you can use a framework of your choice, not only Karaf
• Improved Speed: Improved memory management & speed
• Modularity: Your application code can start, stop & restart modules, as required

Use Cases

• OpenDaylight to lighty.io Migration
• BGP Route Reflector
• OpenFlow Integration
• OVSDB & OpenFlow
• Migration of ONAP SDNC to lighty.io
• NETCONF Device on ARM
• Migration of OpenDaylight TransportPCE to lighty.io
• Rapid NETCONF Controller Integration Testing

Components

• lighty-codecs - Easy to use IO YANG data operations
• lighty-core - OpenDaylight core services: MD-SAL, Controller, yangtools, Clustering
  • google guice extension - Dependency injection extension for Google Guice
  • spring extension - Dependency injection extension for spring.io
• lighty-examples - Examples and applications
• lighty-models - Example YANG models and YANG model artifacts
• lighty-modules - OpenDaylight NorthBound (NB) and SouthBound (SB) plugin initializers
  • RESTCONF North-Bound plugin
  • NETCONF South-Bound plugin
• lighty-resources - Resource artifacts

Build & Install

In order to build and install lighty.io artifacts locally, follow the steps below:

1. Install JDK - make sure JDK 11 is installed
2. Install maven - make sure you have maven 3.6.3 or later installed
3. Setup maven - make sure you have the proper settings.xml in your ~/.m2 directory
4. Build & Install locally - by running command: mvn clean install -DskipTests

Migration from OpenDaylight to lighty.io

This guide describes the migration procedure from OpenDaylight/Karaf application to lighty.io. It contains a summary of practical experiences, based on real-life OpenDaylight project migrations.

Run JUnit & IT tests

lighty.io project contains JUnit & integration tests. Because a complete OpenDaylight/lighty.io controller is often started with south-bound and north-bound plugins, these tests are often required. IT tests are comparable with single-feature tests in ODL/Karaf environment - but much faster.

Before starting IT tests, please make sure that ports 8080, 8888, 8185, 2550 are free on localhost.

To run unit and integration tests, use the command:

mvn clean install

Support, FAQ & Use-Cases

If you are interested in lighty.io, require technical support, need blogs, FAQ, technical articles and more examples, visit lighty.io