Objectives / Scope
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-The Pharos specification defines the OPNFV hardware environment
-upon which the OPNFV Brahmaputra platform release can be deployed
-on and tested. This specification defines:
+The **Pharos Specification** defines a hardware environment for deployment and testing of the **Brahmaputra**
+platform release. The **Pharos Project** is also responsible for defining lab capabilities, developing
+management/usage policies and process; and a support plan for reliable access to project and release resources.
+Community labs are provided as a service by companies and are not controlled by Pharos however our objective is
+to provide easy visibility of all lab capabilities and their usage at all-times.
-- A secure, scalable, standard and HA environment
-- Supports the full Brahmaputra deployment lifecycle (this requires a bare metal environment)
+Pharos lab infrastructure has the following objectives:
+- Provides secure, scalable, standard and HA environments for feature development
+- Supports the full Brahmaputra deployment lifecycle (this requires a **bare-metal** environment)
- Supports functional and performance testing of the Brahmaputra release
-- Provides mechanisms and procedures for secure remote access to the test environment
+- Provides mechanisms and procedures for secure remote access to Pharos compliant environments for OPNFV community
-Deploying Brahmaputra in a Virtualized environment is possible
-and will be useful, however it does not provide a fully
-featured deployment and test environment for the Brahmaputra
-release of OPNFV.
+Deploying Brahmaputra in a Virtualized environment is possible and will be useful, however it does not provide a fully
+featured deployment and realistic test environment for the Brahmaputra release of OPNFV.
The high level architecture is outlined in the following diagram:
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