Add Alpha Release Guide to Docs

deploy/README.md

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   - [Solution overview](#solution-overview)
   - [Minimum Requirements](#minimum-requirements)
   - [Support Matrix](#support-matrix)
-  - [Installation with Helm](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Installation_with_Helm.md)
-  - [Upgrading with Helm](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Upgrading_with_Helm.md) 
-  - [Non Helm Installation](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Non_Helm_Installation.md) 
-  - [Adding Additional FluentD Plugins](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Additional_Fluentd_Plugins.md)
-- [Migration Steps](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Migration_Steps.md)
-- [Troubleshooting Collection](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/Troubleshoot_Collection.md)
-- [Monitoring the Monitoring](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/blob/master/deploy/docs/monitoring-lag.md)
+  - [Installation with Helm](./docs/Installation_with_Helm.md)
+  - [Upgrading with Helm](./docs/Upgrading_with_Helm.md) 
+  - [Non Helm Installation](./docs/Non_Helm_Installation.md) 
+  - [Adding Additional FluentD Plugins](./docs/Additional_Fluentd_Plugins.md)
+  - [Alpha Releases](./docs/Alpha_Release_Guide.md)
+- [Migration Steps](./docs/Migration_Steps.md)
+- [Troubleshooting Collection](./docs/Troubleshoot_Collection.md)
+- [Monitoring the Monitoring](./docs/monitoring-lag.md)
 
 ## Solution overview
 

deploy/docs/Alpha_Release_Guide.md

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+# Alpha Releases
+
+| DISCLAIMER |
+| --- |
+| We recommend testing alpha releases on non-production clusters. These releases are generated continuously from contributions to this repo and may not be fully tested. |
+
+
+As part of our [Travis CI script](../../ci/build.sh), we release an alpha Docker image as well as an alpha Helm chart release.
+
+## Versioning
+Release Type | Version Scheme | Example
+-------- | ----- | -----
+Major Release | `major.0.0` | `2.0.0`
+Minor Release | `major.minor.0` | `0.11.0`
+Alpha Release | `major.minor.patch-alpha` | `0.11.3-alpha`
+
+You can find a list of all releases in the Github repo's [Releases](https://github.com/SumoLogic/sumologic-kubernetes-collection/releases) section. You can find a list of all Docker images in the [Docker tags](https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/sumologic/kubernetes-fluentd/tags) section.
+
+## Using an alpha release
+
+### Helm installation
+
+Follow the [Helm installation guide](./Installation_with_Helm.md), but override both the Helm chart version and the Docker image version.
+
+```
+helm repo update
+helm install sumologic/sumologic --name collection --namespace sumologic ... --version=0.11.3-alpha --set image.tag="0.11.3-alpha"
+```
+
+### Non-helm installation
+
+Follow the [non-Helm installation guide](./Non_Helm_Installation.md), but modify the .yaml template to use an alpha Docker image for both log and event deployments, e.g.
+
+```
+- name: fluentd
+  image: sumologic/kubernetes-fluentd:0.11.3-alpha
+```
+
+```
+- name: fluentd-events
+  image: sumologic/kubernetes-fluentd:0.11.3-alpha
+```