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title: Integration Guide
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Calico introduces IP-per-container & fine-grained security policies to Mesos, while
maintaining speed and scalability and rendering port-forwarding obsolete.

Use the navigation bar on the left to view information on Calico's Mesos
integration, or continue reading for an overview of recommended guides to get
started.

## Installation

#### [Requirements](installation/prerequisites)

Information on running etcd and configuring Docker for multi-host networking.

#### [Integration Guide](installation/integration)

This method walks through the necessary manual steps to integrate Calico with your own deployment scripts and tools. Follow this guide if you’re integrating Calico with your own configuration management tools.

#### [DC/OS Installation Guide](installation/dc-os)

This guide shows how to launch Calico's Installation Framework from the DC/OS Universe.

This install can be customized to lessen service impact
and improve reliability. See additional information on
[Customizing Calico's DC/OS Installation Framework](installation/dc-os/custom).

## Quickstart with "Calico-Ready" Clusters

#### [Vagrant/VirtualBox: CentOS](installation/vagrant-centos)

Follow this guide to launch a local 2-node Mesos cluster on CentOS VMs with everything
you need to install and use Calico.

## Tutorials

- [Launching Tasks](tutorials/launching-tasks)
- [Connecting to Tasks](tutorials/connecting-tasks)
- [Configuring Policy for Docker Containerizer Tasks](tutorials/policy/docker-containerizer)
- [Configuring Policy for Universal Containerizer Tasks](tutorials/policy/universal-containerizer)
