What does OpenDaylight SDN Platform need from the Apache Karaf container?

Just wanted to share my talk from OpenDaylight Summit 2015.

I'd like to thank the OpenDaylight community again for allowing me speaking time during the developer forum.

Decanting OpenDaylight

The Monitoring and Alerting Solution for Apache Karaf

During OpenDaylight Summit 2015 I was given the opportunity to talk about Apache Karaf's road map, and Karaf's new subproject Apache Karaf Decanter.

Decanter is a complete monitoring and alerting solution for Apache Karaf.  It provides a web based collection of dash boards, which contain nicely graphed metrics from your applications' runtime, and lets you explore logged events.

Architecturally, Decanter is composed of:

• collectors retrieving monitored data (JMX metrics, log messages, etc)
• dispatchers powered by EventAdmin, and
• appenders storing monitored data.

Decanter provides a Service Level Agreement layer, which allows you to check values of harvested data and send alerts when data in not in the expected state.

User and Developer guides are available from Karaf's website.

OpenDaylight Lithium, Decanted

Perhaps the most exciting news for OpenDaylight users is that the core Decanter framework works on Lithium! All the OpenDaylight community needs to do now is develop the various collectors, dispatchers, appenders, and alters to make OpenDaylight based services appear in one of Decanter's dashboards.

Thank you ODSummit

George Zhao, OpenDaylight Release Manager
receiving a signed copy of Learning Apache Karaf

I recently attended OpenDaylight Summit 2015 in Santa Clara, California - a community gathering of the developers, and users of OpenDaylight SDN Platform. The energy and enthusiasm of the crowd for building this new open source community was invigorating. I met many of the people behind the IRC nicknames I've come to know over the last year & half of working with the community. It was truly a great event, and I look forward to seeing how OpenDaylight's next release, Be, evolves.

The various keynotes, sessions, and tutorials are available for reviewing from the OpenDaylight projects' youtube channel. I'd like the share the below two keynotes, as it helps show how deeply OpenDaylight is reaching into today's networks and how integral OpenDaylight (and it's Apache Karaf core) is becoming in tomorrow's infrastructure:

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