Architecture guide doc

First few paragraphs with richer description on choices deployers can
make while deploy of production kolla

Co-Authored-By: Paul Bourke <paul.bourke@oracle.com>

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+=============================
+Production architecture guide
+=============================
+
+This guide will help with configuring Kolla to suit production needs.  It is
+meant to answer some questions regarding basic configuration options that Kolla
+requires. This document also contains other useful pointers.
+
+Node types and services running on them
+=======================================
+
+A basic Kolla inventory consists of several types of nodes, known in Ansible as
+``groups``.
+
+* Controller - This is the cloud controller node. It hosts control services like
+  APIs and databases. This group should have odd number of nodes for quorum.
+
+* Network - This is the network node. It will host Neutron agents along with
+  haproxy / keepalived. These nodes will have a floating ip defined in
+  ``Kolla_internal_vip_address``.
+
+* Compute - These are servers for compute services. This is where guest VMs
+  live.
+
+* Storage - Storage servers, for cinder-volume, LVM or ceph-osd.
+
+Network configuration
+=====================
+
+Interface configuration
+***********************
+
+In Kolla operators should configure following network interfaces:
+
+* network_interface - While it is not used on it's own, this provides the
+  required default for other interfaces below.
+
+* api_interface - This interface is used for the management network. The
+  management network is the network OpenStack services uses to communicate to
+  each other and the databases.  There are know security risks here, so it's
+  recommended to make this network internal, not accessible from outside.
+  Defaults to network_interface.
+
+* kolla_external_vip_interface - This interface is public-facing one. It's
+  used when you want HAProxy public endpoints to be exposed in different
+  network than internal ones. It is mandatory to set this option when
+  ``kolla_enable_tls_external`` is set to yes. Defaults to network_interface.
+
+* storage_interface - This is the interface that is used by virtual machines to
+  communicate to Ceph. This can be heavily utilized so it's recommended to put
+  this network on 10Gig networking. Defaults to network_interface.
+
+* cluster_interface - This is another interface used by Ceph. It's used for data
+  replication. It can be heavily utilized also and if it becomes a bottleneck it
+  can affect data consistency and performance of whole cluster. Defaults to
+  network_interface.
+
+* tunnel_interface - This interface is used by Neutron for vm-to-vm traffic over
+  tunneled networks (like VxLan). Defaults to network_interface.
+
+* Neutron_external_interface - This interface is required by Neutron. Neutron
+  will put br-ex on it. It will be used for flat networking as well as tagged
+  vlan networks. Has to be set separately.
+
+Docker configuration
+====================
+
+Because Docker is core dependency of Kolla, proper configuration of Docker can
+change the experience of Kolla significantly. Following section will highlight
+several Docker configuration details relevant to Kolla operators.
+
+Storage driver
+**************
+
+In certain distributions Docker storage driver defaults to devicemapper, which
+can heavily hit performance of builds and deploys. We suggest to use btrfs or
+aufs as driver. More details on which storage driver to use in
+`Docker documentation <https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/storagedriver/selectadriver/>`_.
+
+Volumes
+*******
+
+Kolla puts nearly all of persistent data in Docker volumes. These volumes are
+created in Docker working directory, which defaults to
+
+::
+
+    /var/lib/docker
+
+We recommend to ensure that this directory has enough space and is placed on
+fast disk as it will affect performance of builds, deploys as well as database
+commits and rabbitmq.
+
+This becomes especially relevant when ``enable_central_logging`` and
+``openstack_logging_debug`` are both set to true, as fully loaded 130 node
+cluster produced 30-50GB of logs daily.
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    :maxdepth: 2
 
    deployment-philosophy/deployment-philosophy
+   architecture-guide
    quickstart
    multinode
    image-building