diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b28332d4..1e2fdeb8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -13,8 +13,12 @@
 target/
 publish-docs/
 generated/
+build/
 /build-*.log.gz
 
+# Testenvironment
+.tox/
+
 # Transifex Client Setting
 .tx
 
diff --git a/doc-tools-check-languages.conf b/doc-tools-check-languages.conf
index dc1db5dc..ca3ef9b5 100644
--- a/doc-tools-check-languages.conf
+++ b/doc-tools-check-languages.conf
@@ -18,3 +18,11 @@ POM_FILE="doc/pom.xml"
 
 # Location of doc dir
 DOC_DIR="doc/"
+
+# Books with special handling
+# Values need to match content in project-config/jenkins/scripts/common_translation_update.sh
+declare -A SPECIAL_BOOKS
+SPECIAL_BOOKS=(
+    # Skip translation of guide for now, it needs to consolidate first
+    ["ha-guide"]="skip"
+)
diff --git a/doc/ha-guide/setup.cfg b/doc/ha-guide/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..81cff9fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ha-guide/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+[metadata]
+name = openstackhaguide
+summary = OpenStack High Availability Guide
+author = OpenStack
+author-email = openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
+home-page = http://docs.openstack.org/
+classifier =
+Environment :: OpenStack
+Intended Audience :: Information Technology
+Intended Audience :: System Administrators
+License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+Programming Language :: Python
+Programming Language :: Python :: 2
+Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6
+Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
+Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
+Topic :: Documentation
+
+[global]
+setup-hooks =
+    pbr.hooks.setup_hook
+
+[files]
+
+[build_sphinx]
+all_files = 1
+build-dir = build
+source-dir = source
+
+[wheel]
+universal = 1
+
+[pbr]
+warnerrors = True
diff --git a/doc/ha-guide/setup.py b/doc/ha-guide/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..73637574
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ha-guide/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY THE GLOBAL REQUIREMENTS REPO - DO NOT EDIT
+import setuptools
+
+# In python < 2.7.4, a lazy loading of package `pbr` will break
+# setuptools if some other modules registered functions in `atexit`.
+# solution from: http://bugs.python.org/issue15881#msg170215
+try:
+    import multiprocessing  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    setup_requires=['pbr'],
+    pbr=True)
diff --git a/doc/ha-guide/source/conf.py b/doc/ha-guide/source/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a1e52e80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ha-guide/source/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import os
+# import sys
+
+import openstackdocstheme
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration ------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = []
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+# templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+# source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'High Availability Guide'
+copyright = u'2015, OpenStack contributors'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '0.0.1'
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = '0.0.1'
+
+# We ask git for the SHA checksum
+# The git SHA checksum is used by "log-a-bug"
+git_cmd = "/usr/bin/git log | head -n1 | cut -f2 -d' '"
+gitsha = os.popen(git_cmd).read().strip('\n')
+# source tree
+pwd = os.popen("pwd").read().strip('\n')
+# html_context allows us to pass arbitrary values into the html template
+html_context = {"pwd": pwd, "gitsha": gitsha}
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+# language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+# today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+# today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = []
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
+# default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+# add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+# add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+# show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+# modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# If true, keep warnings as "system message" paragraphs in the built documents.
+# keep_warnings = False
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'openstackdocs'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+# html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+html_theme_path = [openstackdocstheme.get_html_theme_path()]
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+# html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+# html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+# html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+# html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+# html_static_path = []
+
+# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
+# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
+# directly to the root of the documentation.
+# html_extra_path = []
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+# So that we can enable "log-a-bug" links from each output HTML page, this
+# variable must be set to a format that includes year, month, day, hours and
+# minutes.
+html_last_updated_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+# html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+# html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+# html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# html_domain_indices = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+html_use_index = False
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+# html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+# This one is needed for "Report a bug".
+# html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+# html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+# html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+# html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'ha-guide'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ---------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    # 'preamble': '',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    ('index', 'HAGuide.tex', u'High Availability Guide',
+     u'OpenStack contributors', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+# latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+# latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+# latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# latex_domain_indices = True
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    ('index', 'haguide', u'High Availability Guide',
+     [u'OpenStack contributors'], 1)
+]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+# man_show_urls = False
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output -------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    ('index', 'HAGuide', u'High Availability Guide',
+     u'OpenStack contributors', 'HAGuide',
+     'This guide shows OpenStack operators and deployers how to configure'
+     'OpenStack Networking to be robust and fault-tolerant.', 'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+# texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+# texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+# texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+# If true, do not generate a @detailmenu in the "Top" node's menu.
+# texinfo_no_detailmenu = False
+
+# -- Options for Internationalization output ------------------------------
+locale_dirs = ['locale/']
diff --git a/doc/ha-guide/source/index.rst b/doc/ha-guide/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a66390a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ha-guide/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+=================================
+OpenStack High Availability Guide
+=================================
+
+Abstract
+~~~~~~~~
+
+This guide describes how to install, configure, and manage
+OpenStack for high availability.
+
+This guide documents OpenStack Kilo, OpenStack Juno, and OpenStack
+Icehouse releases.
+
+.. warning:: This guide is a work-in-progress and changing rapidly
+   while we continue to test and enhance the guidance. Please note
+   where there are open "to do" items and help where you are able.
+
+Contents
+~~~~~~~~
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   intro.rst
+
+Search in this guide
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* :ref:`search`
diff --git a/doc/ha-guide/source/intro.rst b/doc/ha-guide/source/intro.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e6c5d50e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/ha-guide/source/intro.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+============
+Introduction
+============
diff --git a/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements.txt
index 74465c6a..10ffe4d2 100644
--- a/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/test-requirements.txt
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 # process, which may cause wedges in the gate later.
 
 openstack-doc-tools>=0.23
+
+sphinx>=1.1.2,!=1.2.0,!=1.3b1,<1.3
+openstackdocstheme>=1.0.3
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index f08b1b0e..85055f9e 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ commands = openstack-doc-test --check-deletions {posargs}
 
 [testenv:checkbuild]
 commands =
+  # Build and copy RST Guides
+  sphinx-build -W doc/ha-guide/source doc/ha-guide/build/html
+  # Copy RST ha-guide
+  mkdir -p publish-docs/ha-guide
+  rsync -a doc/ha-guide/build/html/ publish-docs/ha-guide/
+  # Build DocBook Guide
   openstack-doc-test --check-build {posargs}
 
 [testenv:publishdocs]
@@ -71,6 +77,10 @@ sitepackages=True
 whitelist_externals = doc-tools-check-languages
 commands = doc-tools-check-languages doc-tools-check-languages.conf publish all
 
+[testenv:docs]
+commands =
+  sphinx-build -W doc/ha-guide/source doc/ha-guide/build/html
+
 [doc8]
 # Settings for doc8:
 # Ignore target directories