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SDN Basics Without the Buzzwords
Control vs data plane separation, flow tables, and safe lab isolation.
6,900,000 VND (informational)
Overview
Mini-labs on open controllers with strict guardrails. You will not break the public internet — everything stays in a contained Mininet-style fabric.
Included focus areas
- Isolated Mininet-style topologies
- Flow rule readability checklist
- Northbound API read-only exercises
- Failure injection with supervised rollback
- Comparison sheet: classic CLI vs API
- Ethics note on production SDN changes
- Capstone design critique
Outcomes
- Explain one failure mode of centralized control
- Author readable flow rules for a simple topology
- Draft a risk paragraph for a change ticket
Lead mentor
Thanh Sang Bui
Research engineer; emphasizes safe controller sandboxes.
FAQ
No — concepts and lab controllers only.
Experience notes
Flow rule readability rubric made my thesis diagrams less embarrassing.