You’re right that “getting started” documentation is a major area for improvement.
We’ve got a new documentation repository where I hope we will be able to start consolidating the best information and weeding out the older and less accurate information, but currently it’s just a skeleton. https://review.opencontrail.org/34136 If you’ve kept good notes on what worked and what didn’t we would love to have your help in cleaning up and consolidating the stuff that worked. From: Dev [mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org] On Behalf Of Abhijit Gadgil Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2017 10:39 To: dev@lists.opencontrail.org Subject: [opencontrail-dev] OpenContrail Quick Start 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<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__juniper.github.io_contrail-2Dvnc_README.html&d=DwMFaQ&c=LFYZ-o9_HUMeMTSQicvjIg&r=xtmPik_TP2fjPVGWP4yBRQ&m=b7k-Tvrzapir03QSr1nFcNlK35bYBHB0hIZmOhlmXt4&s=TsYHkF9nxE0tFVAKlF0wIdLf6XtDJRC93Wy4Gl7TzCw&e=> 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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