Opendaylight Helium is the second release after Hydrogen and it was released late September 2014. Earlier, I was using Opendaylight Hydrogen release and recently, I tried out Opendaylight Helium release. In this blog, I have shared some of my experiences with Helium.
Following are some important additions to Helium compared to Hydrogen. For more details, please refer Opendaylight webpage.
- Hardening of the controller, Clustering capability, Security options like AAA.
- Better integration with Openstack which has features like Group based policy, service function chaining.
- Use of Apache karaf container format so that individual features can be installed.
- Better Dlux gui.