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+=============================================================================================
+OPNFV Release Notes for the Bramaputra release of OPNFV when using Apex as a deployment tool
+=============================================================================================
+
+
+.. contents:: Table of Contents
+   :backlinks: none
+
+
+Abstract
+========
+
+This document provides the release notes for Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain.
+
+License
+=======
+
+All Apex and "common" entities are protected by the Apache License ( http://www.apache.org/licenses/ )
+
+
+Version history
+===============
+
+
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| **Date**           | **Ver.**           | **Author**         | **Comment**        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2015-09-17         | 1.0.0              | Dan Radez          | Rewritten for      |
+|                    |                    |                    | RDO Manager update |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2015-09-10         | 0.2.0              | Tim Rozet          | Updated for SR1    |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2015-06-03         | 0.1.2              | Tim Rozet          | Minor Edits        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2015-06-02         | 0.1.1              | Chris Price        | Minor Edits        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+| 2015-04-16         | 0.1.0              | Tim Rozet          | First draft        |
+|                    |                    |                    |                    |
++--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+--------------------+
+
+Important notes
+===============
+
+This is the OPNFV Bramaputra release that implements the deploy stage of the OPNFV CI pipeline via Apex.
+
+Apex is based on RDO Manager. More information at http://rdoproject.org
+
+Carefully follow the installation-instructions which guide a user on how to deploy OPNFV using Apex installer.
+
+Summary
+=======
+
+Bramaputra release with the Apex 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 version combined with OpenDaylight version: Lithium.  The system
+is deployed with OpenStack High Availability (HA) for most OpenStack services.  OpenDaylight
+is deployed in non-HA form as HAi support is not availble for OpenDaylight at the time of
+the Bramaputra release.  Ceph storage is used as Cinder backend, and is the only supported
+storage for Bramaputra. Ceph is setup as 3 OSDs and 3 Monitors, one OSD+Mon per Controller
+node.
+
+- Documentation is built by Jenkins
+- .iso image is built by Jenkins
+- Jenkins deploys a Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain baremetal, which includes 3 control+network nodes, and 2 compute nodes.
+
+Release Data
+============
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Project**                          | apex                                 |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Repo/tag**                         | apex/bramaputra.2016.1.0             |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release designation**              | arno.2016.1.0                        |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Release date**                     | 2015-02-??                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **Purpose of the delivery**          | OPNFV Bramaputra release             |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Version change
+--------------
+
+Module version changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+This is the first tracked version of the Bramapurta release with the Apex deployment toolchain.
+It is based on following upstream versions:
+
+- OpenStack (Liberty release)
+
+- OpenDaylight Lithium
+
+- CentOS 7
+
+Document version changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This is the first tracked version of Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain.
+The following documentation is provided with this release:
+
+- OPNFV Installation instructions for the Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0
+- OPNFV Release Notes for the Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0 (this document)
+
+Feature additions
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| JIRA: APEX-32                        | Build.sh integration of RDO Manager  |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| JIRA: APEX-6                         | Deploy.sh integration of RDO Manager |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| JIRA: APEX-34                        | Migrate and update Release           |
+|                                      | Documentation for Bramaputra         |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Bug corrections
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+**JIRA TICKETS:**
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+|                                      |                                      |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Deliverables
+------------
+
+Software deliverables
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Apex .iso file
+Instack qcow2 disk image
+Overcloud glance disk images
+- deploy-ramdisk-ironic.initramfs
+- deploy-ramdisk-ironic.kernel
+- discovery-ramdisk.initramfs
+- discovery-ramdisk.kernel
+- fedora-user.qcow2
+- overcloud-full.initrd
+- overcloud-full.qcow2
+- overcloud-full.vmlinuz
+build.sh - Builds the above artifacts
+deploy.sh - Automatically deploys Target OPNFV System to Bare Metal
+
+Documentation deliverables
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+- OPNFV Installation instructions for the Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0
+- OPNFV Release Notes for the Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain - ver. 1.0.0 (this document)
+
+Known Limitations, Issues and Workarounds
+=========================================
+
+System Limitations
+------------------
+
+**Max number of blades:**   1 Apex master, 3 Controllers, 20 Compute blades
+
+**Min number of blades:**   1 Apex master, 1 Controller, 1 Compute blade
+
+**Storage:**    Ceph is the only supported storage configuration.
+
+**Min master requirements:** At least 2048 MB of RAM
+
+
+Known issues
+------------
+
+**JIRA TICKETS:**
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **JIRA REFERENCE**                   | **SLOGAN**                           |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| JIRA: APEX-31                        | Support installs without internet    |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+Workarounds
+-----------
+**-**
+
+
+Test Result
+===========
+
+The Bramaputra release with the Apex deployment toolchain has undergone QA test runs with the following results:
+
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **TEST-SUITE**                       | **Results:**                         |
+|                                      |                                      |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+| **-**                                | **-**                                |
++--------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+
+
+
+References
+==========
+
+For more information on the OPNFV Bramaputra release, please see:
+
+http://wiki.opnfv.org/releases/bramaputra
+
+:Authors: Tim Rozet (trozet@redhat.com)
+:Authors: Dan Radez (dradez@redhat.com)
+:Version: 1.0.0
+
+**Documentation tracking**
+
+Revision: _sha1_
+
+Build date:  _date_
+