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Welcome to Tacker's Developer Documentation!
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Tacker is OpenStack project building an Open NFV Orchestrator with in-built
general purpose VNF Manager to deploy and operate Virtual Network Functions
(VNFs) on an NFV Platform. It is based on ETSI MANO Architectural Framework
and provides full functional stack to Orchestrate VNFs end-to-end.

* **Free software:** under the `Apache license <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`_
* **Source:** http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tacker
* **Blueprints:** https://blueprints.launchpad.net/tacker
* **Bugs:** http://bugs.launchpad.net/tacker
* **REST Client:** http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-tackerclient

Features
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* VNF Catalog
* VNFM Life Cycle Management - VNF Start/Stop
* VNF Configuration Management Framework
* VNF KPI Health Monitoring Framework

Feature Documentation
=====================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/monitor-api.rst
   devref/vnfd_template_parameterization.rst

API Documentation
=================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/mano_api.rst

Development Process
===================

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   policies/dev-process.rst

Developer Info
==============

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1

   devref/development.environment.rst
   devref/api_layer.rst
   devref/api_extensions.rst

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