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diff --git a/docs/specification/objectives.rst b/docs/specification/objectives.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a0ad6a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/specification/objectives.rst @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. +.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 +.. (c) 2016 OPNFV. + + +Pharos Compliance +----------------- + +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. + +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 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 realistic test environment for the Brahmaputra release +of OPNFV. + +The high level architecture is outlined in the following diagram: + +.. image:: ../images/pharos-archi1.jpg |