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.. _gettingstarted:

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Getting Started
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The Getting Started Guide is comprised of several different sections; a User section
that describes a basic installation and configuration of VPP (either manually or using
a config utility),  another install for Developers, which contains additional code that
provides tools that are used in a development environment.

The Users section covers basic VPP installation and configuration operations; this
section covers the following areas:

* Describes the different types of VPP packages, which are used in both basic and developer installs.
* Describes how to manually install VPP Binaries on different OS platforms (Ubuntu, Centos, openSUSE) and then how to configure and use VPP.
* Explains how to use the Configuration Utility to install, and then configure VPP.

The Developers section covers the following areas:

* Building VPP
* Describes the components of the four VPP layers
* How to Create, Add, Enable/Disable features
* Discusses different aspects of Bounded-index Extensible Hashing (bihash)

The Writing VPP Documentation section covers the following topics:

* How to build VPP documents
* How to push your changes to the VPP Docs Repository
* Identifies the different styles associated to reStructuredText
* Identifies the different styles associated to Markdown

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   users/index.rst
   developers/index.rst
   writingdocs/index.rst