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 Developer Guide
 ===============
 
-This document provides a quickstart for developers of the Non-RT RIC.
+This document provides a quickstart for developers of the Non-RT RIC parts.
 
-A1 Policy Management Service
-----------------------------
+Additional developer guides are available on the `O-RAN SC NONRTRIC Developer wiki <https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/display/RICNR/Release+D>`_
 
-The Policy Management is implemented in ONAP. For documentation see `readthedocs`_ and `wiki`_.
+A1 Policy Management Service & SDNC/A1 Controller & A1 Adapter
+--------------------------------------------------------------
 
-.. _readthedocs: https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-ccsdk-oran/en/latest/index.html
-.. _wiki: https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=84644984
+The A1 Policy Management Service is implemented in ONAP. For documentation see `ONAP CCSDK documentation <https://docs.onap.org/projects/onap-ccsdk-oran/en/latest/index.html>`_
+and `wiki <https://wiki.onap.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=84672221>`_.
 
-rAPP Catalogue
---------------
+Information Coordinator Service
+-------------------------------
+The Information Coordinator Service is a Java 11 web application built using the Spring Framework. Using Spring Boot
+dependencies, it runs as a standalone application.
 
-See the README.md file in the r-app-catalogue folder for how to run the component.
+Its main functionality is to act as a data subscription broker and to decouple data producer from data consumers.
 
-End-to-end call
----------------
+See the ./config/README file in the *information-coordinator-service* directory Gerrit repo on how to create and setup
+the certificates and private keys needed for HTTPS.
 
-In order to make a complete end-to-end call, follow the instructions given in this `guide`_.
+Start standalone
+++++++++++++++++
 
-.. _guide: https://wiki.o-ran-sc.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=12157166
+The project uses Maven. To start the Information Coordinator Service as a freestanding application, run the following
+command in the *information-coordinator-service* directory:
+
+    +-----------------------------+
+    | mvn spring-boot:run         |
+    +-----------------------------+
+
+Start in Docker
++++++++++++++++
+
+To build and deploy the Information Coordinator Service, go to the "information-coordinator-service" folder and run the
+following command:
+
+    +-----------------------------+
+    | mvn clean install           |
+    +-----------------------------+
+
+Then start the container by running the following command:
+
+    +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+    | docker run nonrtric-information-coordinator-service                |
+    +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
+Initial Non-RT-RIC App Catalogue
+--------------------------------
+
+See the README.md file in the *r-app-catalogue* directory in the Gerrit repo for more details how to run the component.
+
+Kubernetes deployment
+=====================
+
+Non-RT RIC can be also deployed in a Kubernetes cluster, `it/dep repository <https://gerrit.o-ran-sc.org/r/admin/repos/it/dep>`_
+hosts deployment and integration artifacts. Instructions and helm charts to deploy the Non-RT-RIC functions in the
+OSC NONRTRIC integrated test environment can be found in the *./nonrtric* directory.
+For more information see `Integration and Testing documentation on the O-RAN-SC wiki <https://docs.o-ran-sc.org/projects/o-ran-sc-it-dep/en/latest/index.html>`_.