|project| Introduction
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|project| is an OpenStack Deployment & Management tool.


**Architecture**

With |project|, you start by creating an **undercloud** (an actual operator
facing deployment cloud) that will contain the necessary OpenStack components to
deploy and manage an **overcloud** (an actual tenant facing workload cloud). The
overcloud is the deployed solution and can represent a cloud for any purpose
(e.g. production, staging, test, etc). The operator can choose any of available
Overcloud Roles (controller, compute, etc.) they want to deploy to the environment.

Go to :doc:`architecture` to learn more.

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**Components**

|project| is composed of set of official OpenStack components accompanied by
few other open sourced plugins which are increasing |project| capabilities.

Go to :doc:`components` to learn more.


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   architecture
   components