Overview of OpenDaylight

This chapter is about the OpenDaylight project and its components, history, and versions. It is a complex project based on multiple components that are tightly integrated. The aim of this chapter is to make you familiar with the architecture of OpenDaylight so you have a better understanding of how OpenDaylight works and the logic behind it.

We will learn the following topics here:

• Overview of OpenDaylight components
• OpenDaylight modules
• The NeXt UI