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+VOLTHA Deployment Environment
+=============================
+
+All the components in the VOLTHA project are containerized and the default
+deployment environment is ``kubernetes``.
+
+Generally VOLTHA is installed in one of two setups:
+
+- A physical ``kubernetes`` cluster, generally used for production deployments.
+- A virtual ``kind`` cluster, generally used for development.
+
+Regardless of the chosen environment the deployment process is the same,
+more on this later, and the installation can be managed in the same way.
+
+Managing a VOLTHA deployment
+----------------------------
+
+VOLTHA components on top of ``kubernetes`` are managed via ``helm`` charts.
+For more information about ``helm`` please refer to the `Official Documentation
+<https://helm.sh>`_.
+For the sake of this guide all you need to know is that an
+``helm`` chart describes all the information required to deploy a component on top of
+``kubernetes``, such as: containers, exposed ports and configuration parameters.
+
+A VOLTHA deployment is composed, at its very minimum, by:
+
+* Infrastructure
+
+   * A ``kafka`` cluster (can also be a single node)
+   * An ``etcd`` cluster (can also be a single node)
+   * ``ONOS`` (single or multi instance)
+   * [Optional] ``radius`` (for EAPOL based authentication)
+* ``VOLTHA``
+
+   * ``voltha-core`` and ``ofAgent`` (contained in the same ``helm`` chart)
+* Adapters
+
+   * [one or more] adapter pair(s) (OLT adapter + ONU Adapter)
+
+.. figure:: ../_static/voltha_cluster_overview.png
+   :alt: VOLTHA Component Diagram
+   :width: 100%
+
+   VOLTHA Kubernetes deployment
+
+Note that the ``Infrastructure`` components can be deployed outside of the
+``kubernetes`` cluster.
+
+You can read more about VOLTHA deployments in:
+
+- :doc:`lab_setup`
+- :doc:`pod_physical`
+- :doc:`dev_virtual`
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :hidden:
+   :glob:
+
+   ./lab_setup.rst
+   ./pod_physical.rst
+   ./dev_virtual.rst
+
+Tooling
+-------
+
+To simplify the installation of VOLTHA we provided a tool called ``kind-voltha``.
+You can read more on :doc:`kind-voltha <../kind-voltha/README>` in its own documentation.