# Astara Appliance

*Part of the [Astara Project](https://github.com/openstack/astara).*

A Linux-based L3 software router.  Includes a REST API to monitor, configure,
and manage the router.

Astara routers are recommended to run with 512 MB of RAM and a single vCPU, and
are intended to run within an virtualized L2 overlay to provide complete network
virtualization.