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+#============LICENSE_START========================================================
+# ================================================================================
+# Copyright (c) 2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved.
+# Modifications Copyright © 2018 Amdocs, Bell Canada
+# ================================================================================
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+# ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
+
+# DCAE Cloudify Manager Chart
+
+This chart is used to deploy a containerized version of 
+[Cloudify Manager](http://docs.getcloudify.org/4.3.0/intro/cloudify-manager/),
+the orchestration tool used by DCAE.  DCAE uses Cloudify Manager ("CM") to 
+deploy the rest of the DCAE platform as well to deploy DCAE monitoring and
+analytics services dynamically, in response to network events such as VNF startups.
+
+Deployment of CM is the first of two steps in deploying DCAE into ONAP.  After this chart 
+brings up CM, a second chart (the "bootstrap" chart) installs some plugin extensions onto CM 
+and uses CM to deploy some DCAE components. 
+
+## Prerequisites
+The chart requires one Kubernetes secret to be available in the namespace where it is
+being deployed:
+  - `<namespace_name>-docker-registry-key`, the docker registry secret needed to pull images
+  from the Docker repository.  This is the same secret used by other OOM charts.
+
+## DCAE Namespace
+DCAE will use CM deploy a number of containers into the ONAP Kubernetes cluster.  In a production
+environment, DCAE's dynamic deployment of monitoring and analytics services could result in dozens
+of containers being launched.  This chart allows the configuration, through the `dcae_ns` property 
+in the `values.yaml` of a separate namespace used by CM when it needs to deploy containers into
+Kubernetes.  If `dcae_ns` is set, this chart will:
+  - create the namespace.  
+  - create the Docker registry key secret in the namespace.
+  - create some Kubernetes `Services` (of the `ExternalName` type) to map some addresses from the common namespace into the DCAE namespace.
+
+## Use of Consul
+DCAE uses [Consul](http://consul.io) to store configuration data for DCAE components.  In R1, DCAE
+deployed its own Consul cluster.  In R2, DCAE will use the Consul server deployed by OOM.