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Minor changes to the documentation 

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
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
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
execution order, parallelism, synchronization and high availability. Mistral
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
--------------
Task Scheduling - Cloud Cron
Task scheduling - Cloud Cron
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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
@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ possible) and fault tolerance, and will provide workflow execution
management/monitoring capabilities (stop, resume, current status, errors and
other statistics).
Cloud Environment Deployment
Cloud environment deployment
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A user or a framework can use Mistral to specify workflows needed for
deploying environments consisting of multiple VMs and applications.