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Changed the heading styles in the document according to openstack
standards(https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Documentation/Conventions/
DocBook#Headings) and added a link for the devstack installation
in quickstart guide as it is related to the installation.

Change-Id: I2732e1ff7ecf579b0026252d35da55a4d5136d20
Partial-Implements: blueprint mistral-docs
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Sharat Sharma
2016-10-03 13:52:41 +05:30
committed by Dougal Matthews
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ What is Mistral?
Mistral is a workflow service. Most business processes consist of multiple Mistral is a workflow service. Most business processes consist of multiple
distinct interconnected steps that need to be executed in a particular order distinct interconnected steps that need to be executed in a particular order
in a distributed environment. A user can describe such a process as a set of in a distributed environment. A user can describe such a process as a set of
tasks and their transitions. After that it is possible to upload such a tasks and their transitions. After that, it is possible to upload such a
description to Mistral, which will take care of state management, correct description to Mistral, which will take care of state management, correct
execution order, parallelism, synchronization and high availability. Mistral execution order, parallelism, synchronization and high availability. Mistral
also provides flexible task scheduling so that it can run a process according also provides flexible task scheduling so that it can run a process according
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ relations between them is called a **workflow**.
Main use cases Main use cases
-------------- --------------
Task Scheduling - Cloud Cron Task scheduling - Cloud Cron
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A user can use Mistral to schedule tasks to run within a cloud. Tasks can be A user can use Mistral to schedule tasks to run within a cloud. Tasks can be
anything from executing local processes (shell scripts, binaries) on specified anything from executing local processes (shell scripts, binaries) on specified
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ possible) and fault tolerance, and will provide workflow execution
management/monitoring capabilities (stop, resume, current status, errors and management/monitoring capabilities (stop, resume, current status, errors and
other statistics). other statistics).
Cloud Environment Deployment Cloud environment deployment
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A user or a framework can use Mistral to specify workflows needed for A user or a framework can use Mistral to specify workflows needed for
deploying environments consisting of multiple VMs and applications. deploying environments consisting of multiple VMs and applications.