GitHub user nickwallen opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/869
METRON-1362 Improve Metron Deployment README The metron-deployment/README has evolved into something that is difficult to understand and includes some outdated information. This is an attempt to help make this more clear for users. Please review and let me know if I deleted any information that you think is still relevant. Is this format easier to understand? How can I make this better? ## Pull Request Checklist - [ ] Is there a JIRA ticket associated with this PR? If not one needs to be created at [Metron Jira](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:summary-panel). - [ ] Does your PR title start with METRON-XXXX where XXXX is the JIRA number you are trying to resolve? Pay particular attention to the hyphen "-" character. - [ ] Has your PR been rebased against the latest commit within the target branch (typically master)? - [ ] Have you ensured that format looks appropriate for the output in which it is rendered by building and verifying the site-book? If not then run the following commands and the verify changes via `site-book/target/site/index.html`: ``` cd site-book mvn site ``` You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/nickwallen/metron METRON-1362 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/869.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #869 ---- commit 561b19236f749cbc1752eb7fd2598a9f00df4e68 Author: Nick Allen <n...@nickallen.org> Date: 2017-12-14T20:11:07Z METRON-1362 Improve Metron Deployment README ---- ---