.. _gettingstarted:

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Getting Started Guides
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The Getting Started Guide is comprised of several different sections; a section for Users,  another for Developers, and a section for Writing VPP documentation.

The Users section covers basic VPP installation and configuration operations. This section covers the following areas:

* Describes the different types of VPP packages
* Describes how to install VPP Binaries on different OS platforms (Ubuntu, Centos, openSUSE).
* Explains how to configure, then use VPP.
* Explains how to use the Configuration Utility.

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