Welcome to Tacker Documentation

Tacker is an OpenStack service for NFV Orchestration with a general purpose VNF Manager to deploy and operate Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and Network Services on an NFV Platform. It is based on ETSI MANO Architectural Framework.

Installation

There are two ways to install Tacker service:

• Install via Devstack
• Manual Installation

Getting Started

• Getting Started
• Deploying OpenWRT as VNF

Feature Documentation

• VNF Manager User Guide
• VNF Descriptor Template Guide
• Tacker Monitoring Framework
• VNFD Template Parameterization
• Enhanced Placement Awareness Usage Guide
• Multisite VIM Usage
• Mistral workflows for Tacker
• VNF scaling
• Alarm monitoring framework
• Tacker Resource Events Usage Guide
• VNFFG Descriptor Template Guide
• VNF Forwarding Graph
• Orchestrating VNFs using Network Services Descriptor (NSD)
• VNF Component in Tacker

API Documentation

• Tacker API Overview

Contributing to Tacker

• Tacker Development Process
• Request for Enhancement (RFE) Process
• Blueprint and Tacker-Specs process
• References

Developer Info

• Setting Up a Development Environment
• Testing Tacker
• Tacker WSGI/HTTP API layer
• API Extensions
• Functional testcases for tacker
• Gerrit Dashboards

Project Info

• Free software: under the Apache license
• Tacker Service: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tacker
• Tacker Client Library: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-tackerclient
• Tacker Service Bugs: http://bugs.launchpad.net/tacker
• Client Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/python-tackerclient
• Blueprints: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tacker

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• Search Page
• Module Index