Reading list & tools

A short, opinionated set of references we keep coming back to.

Labs you can run

• Mininet — emulate a whole SDN topology on a laptop.
• Containerlab — container-based network labs.
• GNS3 — for mixed real/virtual gear.

Worth reading

• The original OpenFlow whitepaper.
• RFC 7426 — SDN layers and terminology.
• Vendor-neutral intro courses from university networking groups.

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