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New to Interested in trying ONOS out? Then you're in the right place - here are some tutorials to get you started.

User Tutorials

The following links are aimed at those interested in trying out, or getting ONOS up and running:

• QuickStart with a VM  - Try ONOS in a VM packaged with MininetInstalling and running ONOS - Install ONOS on your own machine or VM
• ONOS test environment: Vagrant, LXC and cell - a tutorial for running or developing in a multi-instance ONOS environment

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Developer Tutorials

The following are tutorials aimed at those interested in developing on ONOS. 

• Basic Tutorial - Simple Basic ONOS tutorial
• Distributed Tutorial - Develop a full-fledged application for a distributed ONOS cluster
• Template Application Tutorial - Use Maven Archetypes to generate an ONOS application template
• CLI and Service Tutorial - Extend your application with a service and add a CLI command to use it
• Web GUI Tutorials - Inject new content (and/or behavior) into the Web GUI from your application
• Learning Switch Tutorial - Learn how to build a switch using ONOS.
• ONOS+P4 Tutorial for Beginners - Learn the basics of the P4 language and how to use ONOS as the control plane using P4Runtime.
• Advanced ONOS+P4 Tutorial - Build an SRv6-enabled fabric from scratch (requires intermediate knowledge of the P4 language).
• Rabbit MQ Tutorial - Learn how to configure ONOS for Rabbit MQ applications. (In progress)
  
• Server Device Driver Tutorial - Learn how to manage commodity servers and their network interface cards (NICs)

We also provide an online version of the Javadocs, which may be helpful for finding out more about the code in the tutorials.

Use Case Tutorials

The following tutorials showcase some of the applications and use cases that are being developed on top of ONOS.

• SDN-IP - Learn how ONOS can become a first-class citizen in a BGP-driven world.
• Packet/Optical Tutorial - See ONOS' converged packet/optical topology and network resiliency features.

Community contributed Tutorials

The following tutorials have been developed by the community.

• ONOS Tutorial from SDN Hub - made by Srini Seetharaman (Thanks Srini!)
• Tutorial by SDN Hub (Srini Seetharaman): Experimenting with ONOS Clustering

SDN training

Thank you to the SDN Academy team for creating this SDN learning material and making it available to us.

• SDN Level 1
• SDN Level 2
• SDN Level 3
• Application tutorial - Write a simple ONOS application
• CLI tutorial - Extend the ONOS CLI to add a command for your simple application
• Bundle tutorial - Create OSGi bundles for your project using Maven archetypes

Stuck? Have feedback?

Please direct questions and feedback to the onos-discuss Google group. However, be sure to search the  FAQsFAQ, documentations, and onos-discuss archives before asking a question - otherwise, you'll probably get a terse response pointing you to a link!