The Open vSwitch documentation is organised into multiple sections:
- :doc:`Installation guides </intro/install/index>` guide you through
- installing Open vSwitch (OVS) and Open Virtual Network (OVN) on a variety of
- different platforms
+ installing Open vSwitch (OVS) on a variety of different platforms
- :doc:`Tutorials </tutorials/index>` take you through a series of steps to
- configure OVS and OVN in sandboxed environments
-- :doc:`Topic guides </topics/index>` provide a high level overview of OVS and
- OVN internals and operation
-- :doc:`How-to guides </howto/index>` are recipes or use-cases for OVS and OVN.
+ configure OVS in sandboxed environments
+- :doc:`Topic guides </topics/index>` provide a high level overview of OVS
+ internals and operation
+- :doc:`How-to guides </howto/index>` are recipes or use-cases for OVS.
They are more advanced than the tutorials.
- :doc:`Frequently Asked Questions </faq/index>` provide general insight into
- a variety of topics related to configuration and operation of OVS and OVN.
+ a variety of topics related to configuration and operation of OVS.
First Steps
-----------
-Getting started with Open vSwitch (OVS) or Open Virtual Network (OVN) for Open
-vSwitch? Start here.
+Getting started with Open vSwitch (OVS)? Start here.
- **Overview:** :doc:`intro/what-is-ovs` |
:doc:`intro/why-ovs`
:doc:`intro/install/windows` |
:doc:`intro/install/xenserver` |
:doc:`intro/install/dpdk` |
+ :doc:`intro/install/afxdp` |
:doc:`Installation FAQs <faq/releases>`
- **Tutorials:** :doc:`tutorials/faucet` |
:doc:`tutorials/ovs-advanced` |
- :doc:`tutorials/ovn-sandbox` |
- :doc:`tutorials/ovn-openstack`
+ :doc:`tutorials/ovs-conntrack` |
+ :doc:`tutorials/ipsec` |
Deeper Dive
-----------
- **Architecture** :doc:`topics/design` |
:doc:`topics/openflow` |
:doc:`topics/integration` |
- :doc:`topics/porting`
+ :doc:`topics/porting` |
+ :doc:`topics/ovs-extensions`
- **DPDK** :doc:`howto/dpdk` |
:doc:`topics/dpdk/vhost-user`
- **Reference Guides:** :doc:`ref/index`
-- **Testing** :doc:`topics/testing`
+- **Testing** :doc:`topics/testing` :doc:`topics/fuzzing/index`
- **Packaging:** :doc:`intro/install/debian` |
:doc:`intro/install/rhel` |