OpenDaylight with OpenLDAP environment federation
Due to different authentication mechanisms and deployment environments, OpenDaylight can integrate with different identity providers to authenticate OpenDaylight's users. OpenLDAP is an application protocol that can be used as identity provider to authenticate and authorize OpenDaylight's users. In this recipe, we will learn how to set up the OpenLDAP server, define the SDN users, group, and configure OpenDaylight to authenticate the users by the OpenLDAP server.
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need a new OpenDaylight distribution, PostMan as REST API client, VirtualBox to set up a Ubuntu 14.04 VM, and vagrant if you use the predefined vagrant file from the recipe folder.
How to do it...
- If you already have the pre-request installed, you can skip this step and start directly from step 4. If you use the predefined vagrant file to establish the environment, you need to install Vagrant if it is not already installed. Then you need to go to the...
