.. 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 .. Revision: 2f9b37f0f8e512dac2efce8c520a9fcdaf68be6a Build date: 2016-05-27