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+Quick Start Guide
+=================
+
+This provides a very simple overview of Zuul.  It is recommended to
+read the following sections for more details.
+
+Install Zuul
+------------
+
+You can get zuul from pypi via::
+
+    pip install zuul
+
+Zuul Components
+---------------
+
+Zuul provides the following components:
+
+    - **zuul-scheduler**: The main Zuul process. Handles receiving
+      events, executing jobs, collecting results and posting reports.
+      Coordinates the work of the other components.
+
+    - **zuul-merger**: Scale-out component that performs git merge
+      operations.  Zuul performs a large number of git operations in
+      the course of its work.  Adding merger processes can help speed
+      Zuul's processing.  This component is optional (zero or more of
+      these can be run).
+
+    - **zuul-executor**: Scale-out component for executing jobs.  At
+      least one of these is required.  Depending on system
+      configuration, you can expect a single executor to handle up to
+      about 100 simultaneous jobs.  Can handle the functions of a
+      merger if dedicated mergers are not provided.  One or more of
+      these must be run.
+
+    - **gearman**: optional builtin gearman daemon provided by zuul-scheduler
+
+External components:
+
+    - **gearman**: A gearman daemon if the built-in daemon is not used.
+
+    - **zookeeper**: A zookeeper cluster (or single host) for
+      communicating with Nodepool.
+
+    - **nodepool**: Provides nodes for Zuul to use when executing jobs.
+
+
+Zuul Setup
+----------
+
+At minimum you need to provide **zuul.conf** and **main.yaml** placed
+in **/etc/zuul/**.  The following example uses the builtin gearman
+service in Zuul, and a connection to Gerrit.
+
+**zuul.conf**::
+
+    [zuul]
+    tenant_config=/etc/zuul/main.yaml
+
+    [gearman_server]
+    start=true
+
+    [gearman]
+    server=127.0.0.1
+
+    [connection gerrit]
+    driver=gerrit
+    server=git.example.com
+    port=29418
+    baseurl=https://git.example.com/gerrit/
+    user=zuul
+    sshkey=/home/zuul/.ssh/id_rsa
+
+See :ref:`components` and :ref:`connections` for more details.
+
+The following tells Zuul to read its configuration from and operate on
+the *example-project* project:
+
+**main.yaml**::
+
+    - tenant:
+        name: example-tenant
+        source:
+          gerrit:
+            untrusted-projects:
+              - example-project
+
+Starting Zuul
+-------------
+
+You can run any zuul process with the **-d** option to make it not
+daemonize. It's a good idea at first to confirm there's no issues with
+your configuration.
+
+To start, simply run::
+
+    zuul-scheduler
+
+Once run you should have two zuul-scheduler processes (if using the
+built-in gearman server, or one process otherwise).
+
+Before Zuul can run any jobs, it needs to load its configuration, most
+of which is in the git repositories that Zuul operates on.  Start an
+executor to allow zuul to do that::
+
+    zuul-executor
+
+Zuul should now be able to read its configuration from the configured
+repo and process any jobs defined therein.
+
+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+You can use telnet to connect to gearman to check which Zuul
+components are online::
+
+    telnet <gearman_ip> 4730
+
+Useful commands are **workers** and **status** which you can run by just
+typing those commands once connected to gearman.