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High Level Artifact Build Flow

Ideally, the docker image build process should be fully separated from the Maven (Java/Python/etc.) artifact build process, but this doesn't seem to have been applied in ONAP (?)  This means:

• One set of Jenkins jobs will build and deploy Maven artifacts to Nexus
• One set of Jenkins jobs will build the docker images using Maven artifacts already deployed to Nexus before
• Jenkins job dependencies should be set up so that the former can trigger the latter

Once we include considerations of the SNAPSHOT/STAGING/RELEASE docker tags, we end up with the following general development/release flow:

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