# Open Virtual Network (OVN) Documentation

## How the Documentation is Organised

The Open Virtual Network (OVN) documentation is organised into multiple sections:

- Installation guides guide you through installing Open Open Virtual Network (OVN) on a variety of different platforms

- Tutorials take you through a series of steps to configure OVS and OVN in sandboxed environments

- Topic guides provide a high level overview of OVS and OVN internals and operation

- How-to guides are recipes or use-cases for OVS and OVN. They are more advanced than the tutorials.

- Frequently Asked Questions provide general insight into a variety of topics related to configuration and operation of OVS and OVN.

## First Steps

Getting started with Open Virtual Network (OVN) for Open vSwitch? Start here.

- Install: OVN on Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD

- Tutorials: OVN Sandbox | OVN OpenStack Tutorial | OVN IPsec Tutorial | OVN Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Tutorial

## Deeper Dive

- Architecture Integration Guide for Centralized Control

- Testing Testing

- Packaging: Debian/Ubuntu Packaging for OVN | Fedora, RHEL 8.x+ Packaging for OVN

## The Open Virtual Network (OVN) Project

Learn more about the Open Virtual Network (OVN) project and about how you can contribute:

- Community: OVN Release Process | Authors | Mailing Lists | Patchwork | Reporting Bugs in OVN | OVN’s Security Process

- Contributing: Submitting Patches | Backporting patches | Inclusive Language | OVN Coding Style

- Maintaining: The Linux Foundation Open Virtual Network Charter | Committers | Expectations for Developers with OVN Repo Access | OVN Committer Grant/Revocation Policy | Emeritus Status for OVN Committers

- Documentation: OVN Documentation Style | Building OVN Documentation | How OVN’s Documentation Works

## Getting Help

- Seeing an issue of potential bug? Report problems to bugs@openvswitch.org

- Looking for specific information? Try the Index, Module Index or the detailed table of contents.