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Welcome to Tacker Documentation
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Tacker is an OpenStack service for NFV Orchestration with a general purpose
VNF Manager to deploy and operate Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and
Network Services on an NFV Platform. It is based on ETSI MANO Architectural
Framework.

Installation
============

There are two ways to install Tacker service:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   install/devstack.rst
   install/manual_installation.rst

Getting Started
===============

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   install/getting_started.rst
   install/deploy_openwrt.rst

Feature Documentation
=====================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/vnfm_usage_guide.rst
   devref/vnfd_template_description.rst
   devref/monitor-api.rst
   devref/vnfd_template_parameterization.rst
   devref/enhanced_placement_awareness_usage_guide.rst
   devref/multisite_vim_usage_guide.rst
   devref/mistral_workflows_usage_guide.rst
   devref/scale_usage_guide.rst
   devref/alarm_monitoring_usage_guide.rst
   devref/event_logging.rst
   devref/vnffgd_template_description.rst
   devref/vnffg_usage_guide.rst
   devref/nsd_usage_guide.rst
   devref/vnf_component_usage_guide.rst

API Documentation
=================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/mano_api.rst

Contributing to Tacker
======================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   policies/dev-process.rst

Developer Info
==============

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/development.environment.rst
   devref/api_layer.rst
   devref/api_extensions.rst
   devref/tacker_functional_test.rst
   devref/dashboards.rst

Project Info
============

* **Free software:** under the `Apache license <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_
* **Tacker Service:** http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tacker
* **Tacker Client Library:** http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-tackerclient
* **Tacker Service Bugs:** http://bugs.launchpad.net/tacker
* **Client Bugs:** https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-tackerclient
* **Blueprints:** https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tacker

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