BGP component configuration using the OpenConfig implementation
In addition to manual configuration and configuration via RESTCONF, OpenDaylight provides an alternative way of BGP provisioning using OpenConfig.
OpenConfig is an initiative to define vendor-neutral data models to allow seamless network management and configuration. An RFC draft that defines a YANG data model for BGP is implemented by OpenDaylight's BGP project in order to support this (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-model-00).
Getting ready
In order to make use of the OpenConfig implementation, two features need to be installed: odl-restconf
and odl-netconf-connector-ssh
. The RESTful API will be used to configure BGP component attributes to OpenDaylight, which in turn uses the NETCONF protocol to manage the network device configuration.
How to do it...
The following instructions will guide through the steps to configure BGP using OpenConfig:
- Start the OpenDaylight distribution using the
karaf
script as described...