+The goal of the Brahmaputra release and this JOID based deployment process is
+to establish a lab ready platform accelerating further development
+of the OPNFV infrastructure.
+
+Carefully follow the installation-instructions which guides a user to deploy
+OPNFV using JOID which is based on MAAS and Juju.
+
+Summary
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+
+ Brahmaputra release with the JOID deployment toolchain will establish an OPNFV target system on a Pharos compliant lab infrastructure.
+The current definition of an OPNFV target system is and OpenStack Liberty combined with OpenDaylight Beryllium.
+
+ The system is deployed with OpenStack High Availability (HA) for most OpenStack services.
+Ceph storage is used as Cinder backend, and is the only supported storage for Brahmaputra. Ceph is setup as 2 OSDs and 2 Monitors, one OSD+Mon per Compute node.
+
+ User has following choices to make to do the deployment.
+
+ - Openstack -- Liberty
+ - Type -- HA, nonHA, tip (stable git branch of respective openstack)
+ - SDN controller -- OpenDaylight, nosdn(Openvswitch), Onos, OpenContrail
+ - Feature -- IPV6, DVR(distributed virtual routing), SFC(service function chaining odl only), BGPVPN(odl only)
+
+- Documentation is built by Jenkins
+- Jenkins deploys a Brahmaputra release with the JOID deployment toolchain baremetal,
+ which includes 3 control+network nodes, and 2 compute nodes.
+
+NOTE: Detailed information on how to install in your lab can be find in installation guide