diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8019bee41..81faf270d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 *.lib
 *.pdb
 *.pyc
+*.retry
 *.so
 *.suo
 **/*.sym
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@
 .dirstamp
 .libs
 .tmp_versions
+.vagrant
 .gitattributes
 /Makefile
 /Makefile.in
diff --git a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst
index a49336b79..253857171 100644
--- a/Documentation/topics/testing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/topics/testing.rst
@@ -389,3 +389,59 @@ validate the suitability of different vSwitch implementations in a telco
 deployment environment. More information can be found on the `OPNFV wiki`_.
 
 .. _OPNFV wiki: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/vsperf/VSperf+Home
+
+Proof of Concepts
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Proof of Concepts are documentation materialized into Ansible recipes
+executed in VirtualBox or Libvirt environments orchastrated by Vagrant.
+Proof of Concepts allow developers to create small virtualized setups that
+demonstrate how certain Open vSwitch features are intended to work avoiding
+user introduced errors by overlooking instructions.  Proof of Concepts
+are also helpful when integrating with thirdparty software, because standard
+unit tests with make check are limited.
+
+Vagrant by default uses VirtualBox provider.  However, if Libvirt is your
+choice of virtualization technology, then you can use it by installing Libvirt
+plugin:
+
+    $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
+
+And then appending  --provider=libvirt flag to vagrant commands.
+
+The host where Vagrant runs does not need to have any special software
+installed besides vagrant, virtualbox (or libvirt and libvirt-dev) and
+ansible.
+
+The following Proof of Concepts are supported:
+
+Builders
+++++++++
+
+This particular Proof of Concept demonsrtates integration with Debian and RPM
+packaging tools:
+
+    $ cd ./poc/builders
+
+    $ vagrant up
+
+Once that command finished you can get packages from /var/www/html
+directory.  Since those hosts are also configured as repositories then
+you can add them to /etc/apt/sources.list.d or /etc/yum.repos.d
+configuration files on another host to retrieve packages with yum or
+apt-get.
+
+hen you have made changes to OVS source code and want to rebuild packages run:
+    $ git commit -a
+    $ vagrant rsync && vagrant provision
+
+Whenever packages are rebuilt the Open vSwitch release number increases
+by one and you can simply upgrade Open vSwitch by running yum or apt-get
+update commands.
+
+Once you are done with experimenting you can tear down setup with:
+
+    $ vagrant destroy
+
+Sometimes deployment of Proof of Concept may fail, if, for example, VMs
+don't have network reachability to the Internet.
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index ed4b7fd7c..174a421e6 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	build-aux/sodepends.py \
 	build-aux/soexpand.py \
 	build-aux/xml2nroff \
+	poc/builders/Vagrantfile \
+	poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml \
+	poc/playbook-ubuntu-builder.yml \
 	$(MAN_FRAGMENTS) \
 	$(MAN_ROOTS) \
 	Vagrantfile \
diff --git a/poc/builders/Vagrantfile b/poc/builders/Vagrantfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af2986789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poc/builders/Vagrantfile
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
+
+Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
+  config.ssh.insert_key = false
+
+  # Centos-7.4 builder host
+  config.vm.define "centosbuilder" do |builder|
+    builder.vm.hostname = "centosbuilder.dev"
+    builder.vm.box = "centos/7"
+    builder.vm.synced_folder "../../", "/git/ovs", type: "rsync",
+                             rsync__args: ["--archive", "--delete", "-z"]
+    builder.vm.provision "builder", type: "ansible" do |ansible|
+      ansible.playbook = "../playbook-centos-builder.yml"
+      ansible.sudo = true
+    end
+  end
+
+  # Ubuntu-16.04 builder host
+  config.vm.define "ubuntubuilder" do |builder|
+    builder.vm.hostname = "ubuntubuilder.dev"
+    builder.vm.box = "generic/ubuntu1604"
+    builder.vm.synced_folder "../../", "/git/ovs", type: "rsync",
+                             rsync__args: ["--archive", "--delete", "-z"]
+    builder.vm.provision "builder", type: "ansible" do |ansible|
+      ansible.playbook = "../playbook-ubuntu-builder.yml"
+      ansible.sudo = true
+    end
+  end
+
+end
diff --git a/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml b/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71f104010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poc/playbook-centos-builder.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+---
+- hosts: all
+  become: true
+  name: builder
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: Create Ansible Local Facts Directory
+    file: path=/etc/ansible/facts.d state=directory
+
+  - name: Initiate Build Numbering
+    copy:
+        content: '{ "release":"1" }'
+        dest: "/etc/ansible/facts.d/builder.fact"
+        force: no
+
+  - name: Set source directory for building
+    set_fact:
+        SOURCE: "/root/rpmbuild/SOURCES"
+
+  - name: Reload Ansible Local Facts
+    setup: filter=ansible_local
+
+  - name: Install "yum-utils", "rpmdevtools", "createrepo", "httpd", "git"
+    yum: update_cache=yes name={{item}} state=present
+    with_items:
+      - yum-utils
+      - rpmdevtools
+      - createrepo
+      - httpd
+      - git
+
+  - name: Remove untracked files from Open vSwitch GIT repository
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ git clean -xdf
+
+  - name: Reset Open vSwitch GIT repository to last comitted state
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ git reset --hard
+
+  - name: Generate spec files for easy build dependency retrieval
+    shell: sed -e 's/@VERSION@/0.0.1/' {{item}}.in > /tmp/{{item}}
+    args:
+        chdir: /git/ovs/rhel
+    with_items:
+      - openvswitch.spec
+      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+
+  - name: Install build dependencies specified from spec files
+    shell: echo "y" | yum-builddep /tmp/{{item}}
+    with_items:
+      - openvswitch.spec
+      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+
+  - name: Create rpm dev tree
+    command: rpmdev-setuptree
+
+  - name: Run "./boot.sh"
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ ./boot.sh
+
+  - name: Run "./configure"
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ ./configure
+
+  - name: Run "make dist"
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ make dist
+
+  - name: Parse out Open vSwitch version from "configure.ac"
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs autoconf -t AC_INIT:'$2'
+    register: version
+
+  - name: Copy source tarball to rpm dev tree
+    command: cp /git/ovs/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}.tar.gz {{SOURCE}}
+
+  - name: Unarchive openvswitch source tarball
+    unarchive:
+       src: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}.tar.gz"
+       dest: "{{SOURCE}}"
+       remote_src: yes
+
+  - name: Update release number in spec files
+    lineinfile:
+      path: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}/rhel/{{item}}"
+      regexp: '^Release:'
+      line: "Release: {{ ansible_local.builder.release }}"
+    with_items:
+      - openvswitch.spec
+      - openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+
+  - name: Build Open vSwitch user space rpms
+    command: rpmbuild -bb --without check rhel/openvswitch.spec
+    args:
+        chdir: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}"
+
+  - name: Build Open vSwitch kmod rpms (only for currently loaded kernel)
+    command: rpmbuild -bb  --without check rhel/openvswitch-kmod-rhel6.spec
+    args:
+        chdir: "{{SOURCE}}/openvswitch-{{version.stdout}}"
+
+  - name: Copy RPM packages to /var/www/html
+    command: cp -r /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/ /var/www/html
+
+  - name: Create RPM Package index file for repository
+    command: chdir=/var/www/html createrepo /var/www/html
+
+  - name: Make sure Apache is running
+    systemd: state=started name=httpd
+
+  - name: Bump up Build Number
+    copy:
+        content: '{ "release":"{{ansible_local.builder.release|int+1}}" }'
+        dest: "/etc/ansible/facts.d/builder.fact"
diff --git a/poc/playbook-ubuntu-builder.yml b/poc/playbook-ubuntu-builder.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5a13c6069
--- /dev/null
+++ b/poc/playbook-ubuntu-builder.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+---
+- hosts: all
+  become: true
+  name: builder
+  gather_facts: no
+  pre_tasks:
+    - name: 'install python2'
+      raw: sudo apt-get -y install python-simplejson
+  tasks:
+
+  - name: Create Ansible Local Facts Directory
+    file: path=/etc/ansible/facts.d state=directory
+
+  - name: Initiate Build Numbering
+    copy:
+        content: '{ "release":"1" }'
+        dest: "/etc/ansible/facts.d/builder.fact"
+        force: no
+
+  - name: Reload Ansible Local Facts
+    setup: filter=ansible_local
+
+  - name: Install "devscripts", "equivs", "apache2", "autoconf"
+    apt: update_cache=yes name={{item}} state=present
+    with_items:
+      - devscripts
+      - equivs
+      - apache2
+      - autoconf
+
+  - name: Remove untracked files from Open vSwitch GIT repository
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ git clean -xdf
+
+  - name: Reset Open vSwitch GIT repository to last comitted state
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ git reset --hard
+
+  - name: Parse out Open vSwitch version from "configure.ac"
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs autoconf -t AC_INIT:'$2'
+    register: version
+
+  - name: Concatenate full version
+    set_fact:
+        full_version: "{{version.stdout}}-{{ansible_local.builder.release}}"
+
+  - name: Update Open vSwitch version to {{full_version}}
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ dch -b -v {{full_version}} Vagrant Build
+
+  - name: Build debian package with Open vSwitch build dependencies
+    command: chdir=/git/ovs/ mk-build-deps -B debian/control
+
+  - name: Install Open vSwitch {{full_version}} build dependencies
+    apt: deb=/git/ovs/openvswitch-build-deps-depends_{{full_version}}_all.deb
+
+  - name: Build Open vSwitch {{full_version}} debian packages
+    shell: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='nocheck' fakeroot debian/rules binary
+    args:
+       chdir: /git/ovs/
+
+  - name: Move debian packages to /var/www/html
+    shell: mv /git/*.deb /var/www/html/
+
+  - name: Create Debian Package index file for repository
+    shell: dpkg-scanpackages . | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
+    args:
+       chdir: /var/www/html
+
+  - name: Bump up Build Number
+    copy:
+        content: '{ "release":"{{ansible_local.builder.release|int+1}}" }'
+        dest: "/etc/ansible/facts.d/builder.fact"
