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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
+.. International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+.. Copyright (C) 2022 Nordix Foundation
+
+.. Links
+.. _Helm: https://docs.helm.sh/
+.. _Helm Charts: https://github.com/kubernetes/charts
+.. _Kubernetes: https://Kubernetes.io/
+.. _Docker: https://www.docker.com/
+.. _Nexus: https://nexus.onap.org/
+
+.. _oom_dev_guide:
+
+OOM Developer Guide
+###################
+
+.. figure:: ../../resources/images/oom_logo/oomLogoV2-medium.png
+   :align: right
+
+ONAP consists of a large number of components, each of which are substantial
+projects within themselves, which results in a high degree of complexity in
+deployment and management. To cope with this complexity the ONAP Operations
+Manager (OOM) uses a Helm_ model of ONAP - Helm being the primary management
+system for Kubernetes_ container systems - to drive all user driven life-cycle
+management operations. The Helm model of ONAP is composed of a set of
+hierarchical Helm charts that define the structure of the ONAP components and
+the configuration of these components.  These charts are fully parameterized
+such that a single environment file defines all of the parameters needed to
+deploy ONAP.  A user of ONAP may maintain several such environment files to
+control the deployment of ONAP in multiple environments such as development,
+pre-production, and production.
+
+
+
+.. rubric:: Container Background
+
+Linux containers allow for an application and all of its operating system
+dependencies to be packaged and deployed as a single unit without including a
+guest operating system as done with virtual machines. The most popular
+container solution is Docker_ which provides tools for container management
+like the Docker Host (dockerd) which can create, run, stop, move, or delete a
+container. Docker has a very popular registry of containers images that can be
+used by any Docker system; however, in the ONAP context, Docker images are
+built by the standard CI/CD flow and stored in Nexus_ repositories. OOM uses
+the "standard" ONAP docker containers and three new ones specifically created
+for OOM.
+
+Containers are isolated from each other primarily via name spaces within the
+Linux kernel without the need for multiple guest operating systems. As such,
+multiple containers can be deployed with little overhead such as all of ONAP
+can be deployed on a single host. With some optimization of the ONAP components
+(e.g. elimination of redundant database instances) it may be possible to deploy
+ONAP on a single laptop computer.
+
+The following sections describe how the ONAP Helm charts are constructed.
+
+.. toctree::
+  :maxdepth: 1
+
+  oom_dev_helm_chart_info.rst
+  oom_dev_config_management.rst
+  oom_dev_container_orchestration.rst
+