Dear All,

I am quite new to OpenContrail, but not so much to OpenStack or fiddling
around vrtual networking in general. I am trying to bring up a single node
OpenContrail. Something along the lines of `devstack`. Unfortunately, the
documentation seems to be all over the place, for instance the Quick Start
Guide looks quite dated and hard to follow.

It took me a bit of a time to actually find out that there's a repo called
`contrail-installer` that does something along the lines of what I want to
do. I had a few troubles getting around the issues to make it run
successfully on Ubuntu 16.04 (clearly the support doesn't exist, and looks
like this project is not actively maintained), I have not yet completely
gone past that issue - but using another approach I followed I am able to
build the repository(ies).

After stumbling upon the following document -

http://juniper.github.io/contrail-vnc/README.html

I managed to eventually get everything to build (though the approach I
followed was inspired from what is mentioned here, but not exactly those
instructions). For instance, when you build everything - it starts with
web-core which I am not so much interested at the moment. I have managed to
build the vRouter agent and the kernel module. (along with almost
everything from the contrail-controller repo).

I have a couple of questions -

1. Was I really looking at right places? This seems to be a rather steep
learning curve for someone working for the first time with OpenContrail.

2. If I am just interested in 'talking to agent somehow' and configuring
the 'vrouter kernel module' to see what the datapath looks like - what
should be the next logical step? Is it even trivially possible. I haven't
looked at some of the unit-code tests yet, which I would probably next, but
just wanted to learn if there's an alternate / better way.

Thanks in advance.

-abhijit
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