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 # Introduction
 This is a flask application that leverages [RabbitMQ](https://www.rabbitmq.com/) and [Celery](https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/introduction.html) 
-to asynchronously create a Cheaha user account. Currently the project is being developed on an Openstack cluster. 
+to asynchronously create a Cheaha user account. Currently the project is being developed on a Terraform-provisioned [Openstack](https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/jpr/terraform-openstack) cluster which leverages various
+[Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/?extIdCarryOver=true&sc_cid=701f2000001OH7YAAW) playbooks and variables from the [CRI_XCBC](https://github.com/jprorama/CRI_XCBC) repo. At any point in this project, these 
+repos may be referenced for more detail on the process of setting up your development cluster. 
 # Project Setup 
 
-
 To clone this repo use the command: 
 ```
 $ git clone https://gitlab.rc.uab.edu/mmoo97/flask_user_reg.git