## Overview
-Kubernates is a container orchestration system that efficiently manages Docker containers. The Docker containers and container platforms provide many advantages over traditional virtualization. Container isolation is done on the kernel level, which eliminates the need for a guest virtual operating system, and therefore makes containers much more efficient, faster, and lightweight. The containers in Contiv/VPP are referred to as PODs.
+Kubernetes is a container orchestration system that efficiently manages Docker containers. The Docker containers and container platforms provide many advantages over traditional virtualization. Container isolation is done on the kernel level, which eliminates the need for a guest virtual operating system, and therefore makes containers much more efficient, faster, and lightweight. The containers in Contiv/VPP are referred to as PODs.
Contiv/VPP is a Kubernetes network plugin that uses [FD.io VPP](https://fd.io/)
-to provide network connectivity between PODs in a k8s cluster (k8s is an abbreviated reference for kubernates).
+to provide network connectivity between PODs in a k8s cluster (k8s is an abbreviated reference for kubernetes).
It deploys itself as a set of system PODs in the `kube-system` namespace,
some of them (`contiv-ksr`, `contiv-etcd`) on the master node, and some
of them (`contiv-cni`, `contiv-vswitch`, `contiv-stn`) on each node in the cluster.
- data-plane NIC is controlled directly by VPP using DPDK. Note, this means that
this interface is not visible to the host Linux network stack, and the node either needs another
management interface for k8s control plane communication, or
- [STN (Steal The NIC)](SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html) deployment must be applied.
+ \[STN (Steal The NIC)\](SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html) deployment must be applied.
**Contiv VPP Agent** is the control plane part of the vSwitch container. It is responsible
for configuring the VPP according to the information gained from ETCD, and requests
### Contiv STN Daemon
-This section discusses how the Contiv [STN (Steal The NIC)](SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html) daemon operation works. As already mentioned, the default setup of Contiv/VPP requires two network interfaces
+This section discusses how the Contiv \[STN (Steal The NIC)\](SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html) daemon operation works. As already mentioned, the default setup of Contiv/VPP requires two network interfaces
per node: one controlled by VPP for data facing PODs, and one controlled by the host
network stack for k8s control plane communication. In case that your k8s nodes
do not provide two network interfaces, Contiv/VPP can work in the single NIC setup,
when the interface will be "stolen" from the host network stack just before starting
the VPP and configured with the same IP address on VPP, as well as
on the host-VPP interconnect TAP interface, as it had in the host before it.
-For more information on STN setup, read the [Single NIC Setup README](./SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html)
+For more information on STN setup, read the \[Single NIC Setup README\](./SINGLE_NIC_SETUP.html)