Mininet is a container orchestration system for network emulation. 

Getting Mininet

It's easy to install Mininet on Ubuntu from a package:

apt-get install mininet

or from source:

git clone http://github.com/mininet/mininet

mininet/util/install.sh -nfv

Or you can download a pre-built Mininet VM: http://mininet.org/download

If you are using Mininet in a VM or on a physical server, it is easy to use onos.py to start up a complete emulated ONOS network, including ONOS cluster, modeled control network, and data network.

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Not directly with this version of onos.py, since the nodes are not running ssh by default. However, if you have a Mininet source tree, you can attach to it using mininet/util/m:

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