deckhand/doc/source/users/rendering.rst
Felipe Monteiro a8660a7e53 docs: Reorganize documentation structure
This patch set reorganizes Deckhand's documentation structure
for better organization into 3 distinct categories:

* developer's guide
* operator's guide
* user's guide

This means that the RTD navigation menu on the left-hand side
will have fewer links (see list above) making navigation much
easier. This is similar to how Armada organizes its documentation
too.

This patch set also updates README section with a better
overview and trims some fat from it (remove testing
documentation as it doesn't really belong there -- there
is a dedicated page for that already).

Finally, this patch set changes the exceptions page to
render as a basic list of autoexception classes because
the current tabularized view is not rendering correctly
on RTD [0].

[0] https://airship-deckhand.readthedocs.io/en/latest/exceptions.html
Change-Id: I162383bf8e3bbd5004603c979ac7b0d760a210c4
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Document Rendering

Document rendering involves extracting all raw revision documents from Deckhand's database, retrieving encrypted information from Barbican, and applying substitution, layering and replacement algorithms on the data.

The following algorithms are involved during the rendering process:

substitution

Substitution provides an "open" data sharing model in which any source document can be used to substitute data into any destination document.

layering

Layering provides a "restricted" data inheritance model intended to help reduce duplication in configuration.

replacement

Replacement builds on top of layering to provide yet another mechanism for reducing data duplication.