OpenDaylight Summit 2016: Apache Karaf Report

My talk submission to OpenDaylight Summit 2016 was accepted! I'm very excited to have this opportunity to address the OpenDaylight community directly this Fall in Seattle. If you're attending the conference, please feel free to sign up for my talk on Sched (http://sched.co/7RBf).

Abstract: OpenDaylight's Apache Karaf Report:

Apache Karaf is at the core of any OpenDaylight system; the architecture and capabilities of Apache Karaf will, in the end, place an upper bound on what OpenDaylight can do as a whole. In this presentation, Jamie Goodyear will review recent events in the Apache Karaf development community, discuss the current state of Apache Karaf and its sub-projects, the challenges it faces, and look forward to how Apache Karaf may address those challenges.

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.