# ipvs - networking for containers
 [](https://godoc.org/github.com/moby/ipvs) [](https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/moby/ipvs)
ipvs provides a native Go implementation for communicating with IPVS kernel module using a netlink socket.
#### Using ipvs
```go
import (
"log"
"github.com/moby/ipvs"
)
func main() {
handle, err := ipvs.New("")
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("ipvs.New: %s", err)
}
svcs, err := handle.GetServices()
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("handle.GetServices: %s", err)
}
}
```
## Contributing
Want to hack on ipvs? [Docker's contributions guidelines](https://github.com/docker/docker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) apply.
## Copyright and license
Copyright 2015 Docker, inc. Code released under the [Apache 2.0 license](LICENSE).