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+---
+prelude: >
+    From the Queens release the deployment of Ceph is only supported in
+    containers.
+deprecations:
+  - |
+    The pre-existing environment files which previously enabled the
+    deployment of Ceph on baremetal, via puppet-ceph, will all be'
+    migrated to deploy Ceph in containers, via ceph-ansible.
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