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Get Involved

• Weekly VPP Meeting
• Join the VPP Mailing List
• Join fdio-vpp IRC channel
• 17.01 Release Plan
• Committer subject matter expert list - who should I add as a reviewer to review my patch?
• Working with the 16.06 Throttle Branch
• Getting the Current Release (16.09)
• How to document vpp code
• Coding Style
• Static Analysis, see Latest Coverity Run Results

Start Here

What is VPP? - An introduction to the open-source Vector Packet Processing (VPP) platform

Feature Summary - A list of features included in VPP

Documentation: master (17.01)

Documentation: 1609.

Installing VPP binaries from packages - using APT/YUM to install VPP

Pulling, Building, Hacking, and Pushing VPP Code - Explains how to get up and going with the vpp code base. NOTE: supercedes Setting Up Your Dev Environment

Building and Installing A VPP Package - Explains how to build, install and test a VPP package

Alternative builds - various platform and feature specific VPP builds

Reporting Bugs - Explains how to report a bug, specifically: how to gather the required information

VPP Troubleshooting - Various tips/tricks for commonly seen issues

• Issues with Vagrant
• Build issues

Dive Deeper

Build System Deep Dive - A close look at the components of the build system.

Introduction To IP Adjacency - An explanation of the characteristics of IP adjacency and its uses.

Introduction To N-tuple Classifiers - An explanation of classifiers and how to create classifier tables and sessions.

Modifying The Packet Processing Directed Graph - An explanation of how a directed node graph processes packets, and possible ways to change the node graph.

Using VPP In A Multi-thread Model - An explanation of multi-thread modes, configurations, and setup.

Using VPP as a VXLAN Tunnel Terminator - An explanation of the VXLAN tunnel terminator, its features, architecture, and API support.

Adding a VPP tunnel encapsulation - How to add a tunnel encapsulation type to vpp.

Using VPP IPSec and IKEv2 - An explanation of IPSec and IKEv2 configuration.

The VPP API

API Concepts

How to Create A Binary Control-plane API

How To Use The API Trace Tools

Python Language Binding

Java Language Binding

YANG model

Reference Material

VPP Command-line Interface (CLI) User Guide

VPP Command-line Arguments and startup configuration

Writing VPP Documentation

Performance Analysis Tools

How to spot missing prefetches

Buffer Opaque Layout

Tutorials

Deep dive code walkthrough VoDs (recorded at 2016 FD.io pre-launch Event)

VPP video tutorials (collection of short video tutorials).

VPP Howtos (collection of step-by-step howto guides).

VPP training events (videos of VPP training events).

Use Cases

Use VPP as a Router Between Namespaces - An example configuration of the VPP platform as a router.

Use VPP with dynamic TAP interfaces as a Router Between Containers - Another example of inter-namespace/inter-container routing, using TAP interfaces.

Use VPP as an LW46 (MAP-E) Terminator - An example configuration of the VPP platform as an lw46 (MAP-E) terminator.

Use VPP for IPv6 Segment Routing - An example configuration of the VPP platform for IPv6 segment routing.

Interconnecting vRouters with VPP - An example to interconnect vRoutes (xrv9000) with VPP using vhost-user feature and VLAN tagging

Use user mode TCP stack with VPP - An example to use user mode TCP stack with VPP using netmap virtual interfaces

Use VPP as a Home Gateway - Configure VPP as a classic ipv4 NAT home gateway

VPP Committer Tasks

Pushing and Testing a Tag

Steps for cutting Master to XXYY-rc0

Cutting a Release

VPP 16.09-RC0 cut punchlist

Projects

Simple NAT - VPP CGN, NAT44, stateful NAT64 project

Security Groups - ACLs, Security Groups, Group Based Policy

Previous Release Plans

• 16.09 Release Plan