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# Astara
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A service with an open plugin architecture that manages Neutron advanced
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services such as routers and load balancers within an OpenStack environment.
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## The Name
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Astara is the sanskrit word for carpet. So why name our project carpet?
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The original code name for this project was simply "The RUG" which was a
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reference to a line from the popular film "The Big Lebowski":
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**That rug really tied the room together, did it not?**
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The idea is that "The Rug" really ties OpenStack neutron together nicely. We
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felt it was an apt description so we kept the name.
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## Related Projects
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The code for the Astara project lives in several separate repositories to ease
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packaging and management:
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* [Astara](https://github.com/openstack/astara) -
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Contains the Orchestration service for managing the creation, configuration,
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and health of neutron advanced services as virtual network functions.
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* [Astara Appliance](https://github.com/openstack/astara-appliance) –
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Supporting software for the Astara virtual network appliance, which is
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a Linux-based service VM that provides routing and L3+ services in
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a virtualized network environment. This includes a REST API for managing
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the appliance via the Astara orchestration service.
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* [Astara Neutron](https://github.com/openstack/astara-neutron) –
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Ancillary subclasses of several OpenStack Neutron plugins and supporting
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code.
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* [Astara Horizon](https://github.com/openstack/astara-horizon) -
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OpenStack Horizon Dashboard code.
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## Project Details
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Astara is publicly managed through the [Astara Launchpad project](https://launchpad.net/astara)
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## Code Review
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The code goes to get reviewed by collaborators and merged at
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[OpenStack Gerrit review](https://review.openstack.org)
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## Documentation
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Can be found at [docs.akanda.io](http://docs.akanda.io)
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Developer quick start guides for making this all work in Devstack `Here
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<docs/source/developer_quickstart.rst>`_
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## Community
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Talk to the developers through IRC [#openstack-astara channel on freenode.net]
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(http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=%23openstack-astara&prompt=1&uio=d4)
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## License and Copyright
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Astara is licensed under the Apache-2.0 license and is Copyright 2015,
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OpenStack Foundation
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