Flox offers developers, platform engineers, and operators reproducible environments that span the enterprise SDLC.
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Introducing 🌟flox 🌟, a next-generation environment manager built on Nix.
We think Nix is the right way to package, build, and share software moving forward, and we leveraged its superpowers to create flox.
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flox is thrilled to release the flox CLI beta to the public as an open-source project!
We're also announcing we have secured a $16.6M in Series A funding led by NEA, among others! floxdev.com/blog/flox-open-b…
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Flox is here 🎉 We’ve been working hard on research and development and making sure Flox is everything we want it to be. It is now generally available and you can use it to manage your dev environments the same way you manage your code. bit.ly/49NEOF3
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Using Nix allowed @fmzakari and the @googlecloud developers working on Looker to reduce onboarding time for new engineers significantly, even during a period of rapid expansion.
Learn how they did it in this edition of #NixInTheWild.
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Homebrew fans!
Check out this post on Homebrew vs flox and how they compare.
We want to make it SO EASY to use Nix on Mac, and this is how.
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Nixpkgs is *the* big recipe book of open source, and it will help sustain the future of free and open source software due to its transparency, flexibility, and unique contributor model.
Read up : floxdev.com/blog/nixpkgs
#Nix #NixOS
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Yannik gave a talk at #FOSDEM introducing Runix, a Rust 🦀 interface to the Nix CLI, which we use at flox. github.com/flox/runix
Check out the talk here: piped.video/watch?v=2b2nc9n_…
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Hear why we built Flox from our head of product
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Wondering how to contribute to Nixpkgs? Here's a walk through
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quick post on TARs, NARs, and something Nix got right.
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Nixpkgs is a powerful asset for the maintenance and resilience of FOSS. Check out @urraca__'s article on devops.com/nixpkgs-how-to-bu…
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Rust and Nix? Learn more in our latest post of how the two achieve similar goals in different realms!
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In our latest Nix in the Wild, hear how Project IDX from @googledevs uses Nix to provide cloud IDEs that contain all the tools and frameworks developers need.
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ICYMI, flox secures our Series A led by @NEA, with participation from Addition, @HetzVentures @DEShawGroup and more to expand on Nix's unique approach to package management and system configuration to provide convenience, collaboration and control #nix #DevOps
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Honored to have our team at @openuk_uk's #InternationalWomensDay event. Emphasizing the importance of this topic and bringing amazing women from across #opensource together!
Many thanks to @AmandaBrockUK and the team for making this happen.
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New post comparing Nix and containers 🚢
TLDR: use the tools for what they're good at.
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Discover the easiest way to integrate Ollama into your projects! Flox lets you create and share reproducible, GPU-capable Ollama environments across MacPros with Metal or x86-64 PCs with CUDA.
Read more on our blog: bit.ly/4cIY7k7
#AI #ML #DevOps #GenAI
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We're working on making these workflows easier to achieve with @floxdevelopment. These great values should be accessible to a far greater audience without requiring multiple years of experience or learning curve. #NixOS #BackToTheFuture
My Nix journey so far. I still stand by that its the #1 most positively impactful technology I've learned in recent years.
- 2020: `nix-env`
- 20H2: `nix-darwin` my Mac
- 2021: NixOS, Nix Flakes dev envs
- 2022: Nix in CI to exactly match dev
- 2023: Nix to build Docker images
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We’re excited to announce Flox 1.1, our latest CLI tool designed to revolutionize the SDLC. Flox allows you to create fast, reproducible, and scalable environments - without containers.
We launched on Product Hunt! Upvote us here:
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We are pleased to share the first post in our Nix in the Wild series, where we dive into the stories of users across the industry.
Today’s story comes from @schickling of Prisma, who uses #Nix to save both time and cost in the dev process.
#NixOS
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We were at @AllThingsOpen with @urraca__ discussing Nix 101 and the history of containers! Recording: piped.video/watch?v=onBQhwuP…
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excellent post! This illustrates perfectly where Nix fits in existing workflows.
There was a lot of interest in this, so I've published a blog post describing how I use Nix with Dockerfiles to build Docker images, including a runnable example. mitchellh.com/writing/nix-wi…
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In this installment of Nix in the Wild, Graham Bennett from PDT Partners shares his experience using Nix. He tells us how they began using it to manage dev tools, but quickly expanded into their scientific computing environment.
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Full room for @ronefroni and Zach Mitchell to kick off the very first #NixCon North America. Thank you to @socallinuxexpo and the amazing volunteers for helping make this happen!
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His journey with Nix began small: maintaining consistency in environments across machines. But soon, @schickling from @prisma embraced all Nix had to offer, from managing dependencies to streamlining projects.
Read more in this Nix in the Wild story ⬇
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At this rate, the 2023 recap will be a book ;)
We ♥️ #Nix
#Nix 2022 Recap
tl;dr - None of this would be here without all of the Nix contributors. Below is only a few of the amazing Nix moments of 2022. If you Nix, keep Nixing. If not, start Nixing.
discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-lo…
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Things our new Head of Marketing and DevRel @rossturk enjoys: coffee and making @nixos_org pogs
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The team at Looker (@googlecloud) use Nix to guarantee reliable and consistent builds from source. Hear from @fmzakari in the latest edition of #NixInTheWild ⇣
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Announcing the flox + @nixos_org community updates series!
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We have just released Flox 1.0.4 🎉
With this new version, you can now install Flox using @MacHomebrew with 'brew install flox'. There is also now support for @golang projects in 'flox init', thanks to a contribution from GitHub user oxcabe.
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In the latest Nix in the Wild, read how @TomDimiduk from Sift Technologies uses Nix to efficiently manage servers and development environments.
#NixOS #devops
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Next Wednesday, @ronefroni will be on the main stage at #GitHubUniverse talking about flox and developer experience 🧑💻 You can see it in-person or on the livestream 👇
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Discover how flox allows you to develop with the portability of containers and the power of native environments. Step outside the box with flox! #development #containers #docker
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Flox 1.1 is live in tandem with a Product Hunt launch! Please upvote us here:
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With Flox, development environments behave consistently across different hardware platforms and architectures, taking full advantage of OS, CPU, and GPU capabilities.
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Q: "So according to Repology, Nix has an insane lead on available packages, but somehow has around a tenth of AURs maintainers. How does Nix also manage to be the most up to date?"
A: "Because we absolutely rule at this."
😆♥️🧙
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Broke your local #development environment while playing with a new toy? The flox CLI offers a better way: easy environments. Play with confidence.
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Part one in our Intro to Flox series shows how you can use virtual environments to fearlessly test out new tools without affecting the rest of your system.
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Highlights of last week in no particular order: Launching Flox GA 1.0 to the world, revealing the new brand, helping host the first ever #NixCon NA, meeting amazing folk at @socallinuxexpo, Karaoke (yup), hosting a welcome reception with @tweagio + in-person time with the team!
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@urraca__ is out @OS101Series talking about #Nix!
Join us today at 3:30pm ET for the "Nix to Docker" talk :)
#nixos #docker @nixos_org
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New flox release (v.0.0.9) dropped last night with plenty of improvements and fixes!
Thanks to everyone who provided feedback, keep it coming ♥️
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With Nix, the Flying Circus can serve their customers’ needs using a single set of tools, address customizations in a clear and consistent way, and tie everything together with a cohesive language.
Read more in this edition of Nix in the Wild!
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Discover how to easily run containers using Podman and Flox, without the hassle of heavy setup. Flox + Podman simplifies container management across Linux and macOS. Get started with a single activation command! @Podman_io
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Using flox to manage your Zsh config can make you feel like a rare species of shell wizard... and that's *before* you realize how easy it is to sync environments across systems.
Give it a try: buff.ly/44e7mVL
#NixOS #commandline #devops
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Last week the flox team took #DockerCon by storm 🌊
First @ronefroni joined a panel on the future of ML in software dev, with tons of audience questions. Then @bereknyei joined Jim Clark from Docker to show how Nix builds great container images.
See you at GitHub Universe?
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One hell of an awesome week for everything #Nix❄️
What happened this week in our #flox land and amazing #nix community land? 👇
(peek -> one launch, three conferences, a bunch of open roles, and one recap😉)
@floxdevelopment ♥️ @nixos_org
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We’re #hiring a Developer Relations Engineer (AI/ML) to join the marketing team at Flox!
We’re looking for a developer that excels in both technical expertise and communication with a deep understanding of artificial intelligence/machine learning.
flox.dev/careers
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One of our favorite features of flox is sharing environments via git: a simple push/pull, and now anyone can recreate your environment locally!
try it with your default environment: "flox push" 🪄
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Our fearless Lead Engineer @bereknyei took the stage to present the flox mission at #NixCon this year!
Check out the post (and recording) below, where we share our goals and approach to bringing Nix's superpowers to everyone.
floxdev.com/blog/tom-nixcon
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What an incredible time at #NixCon23! We learned A LOT from 30+ talks and 220+ attendees that were there. It was an absolute pleasure to be involved as the flox team had five speakers, four volunteers, three hosts and one master of objects, coins, and NixBricks!
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The flox team is going to be onsite at AWS re:Invent next week. We'd love to meet with you and discuss what we're building to improve the software development lifecycle. Reach out here or using the form below and we'll come find you.
Meet with us ⬇
hubs.ly/Q029w8JM0
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The flox factory is hard at work producing Nix Pogs to give away at #DockerCon - see you there?
Don't miss the talk from @bereknyei from flox and Jim Clark from Docker about how to create reproducible, traceable images 👍
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🔥 #Flox + #direnv is like peanut butter + chocolate, key lime + pie, vim + tmux. Automatically activate the environments you need when you need them. Make your dev workflow seamless + friction-free!
Read about it here: bit.ly/4cxWuGl
#DevOps #Nix
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Having an awesome time here at @devopsdaysChi with the #devopsdays community! It's always a pleasure bringing great people together
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Nix in the Wild: "It’s easy to look at Nix and dismiss it, to underestimate it, but then to burn so much time working around problems that Nix would solve. Doing things the right way is worth it in the end."
Read more:
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#nixos #flox #datascience
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Building something cool?
Founders, come join us & @jamdotdev after day1 @ GitHub Universe 🪐
Dark Mode:
- community AI demos
- food & drinks
- a little surprise...
🎮⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️
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In less than an hour, @bereknyei and Jim Clark take the stage at #DockerCon to talk about how Docker and Nix can work together. You can learn how to use Nix to bring reproducibility to your container images. If you're there, don't miss it!
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In an hour, @ronefroni will be on stage at #DockerCon discussing the impact that AI 🤖 will have on cloud native engineering with @amyg12345, @shreyaR, @fmzakari and @beyang!
If you're not at the show, you can watch the livestream by registering here:
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ICYMI, you can use Flox to create consistent dev environments across Linux and macOS, and synchronize them using FloxHub. Bring your tools wherever you work 🛠️ Available now at bit.ly/4acIzDM
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new post on how to get started with flox if you use asdf!
asdf works and many teams love it for its reliability.
But asdf is the tip of the iceberg of what you can do with environments...
Read up: floxdev.com/blog/asdf-migrat…
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Last week, our all-remote team gathered in Austin for a week of intense discussions, skill-building, and fun. From the legendary Flox Fox 🦊 Heist (™) to epic karaoke in the live music capital.
We're pumped for what's next at Flox. Stay tuned 😁 And yes, we are hiring!
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There's no place like ~, but sometimes it can feel a little confining to work in just one environment. In part two of our Intro to flox CLI series, you can learn how to use aliases, vars, and hooks to create and configure as many environments as you need.
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This short post describes how to use flox to create a new dev environment and install #NixOS packages into it...but, more importantly, it shows how a simple `exit` can put everything back the way it was before.
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Our very own @ronefroni rocking it at #DockerCon discussing the impact of AI on Cloud Native Engineering with some awesome folk @ShreyaR @fmzakari @amyg12345 @beyang
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If you're a developer or a power user, you spend a lot of time in your terminal. Using flox to build a reproducible, syncable Zsh environment with @ohmyzsh can make the most of that time. In this post, @garbas shows us how:
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#floxdev #zsh #commandline
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NixCon! We are so excited to be here with all 400 of you!
There are so many amazing contributors sharing Nix projects here today.
If you're a beginner, we know learning Nix can be daunting, so @HonofBryan and @bereknyei are hosting a 4 hour workshop 💻 go tune in!
🌍 ❤️ Kicking off NixCon 2024 with the State of the Union in 15 minutes! Join us live for two days of Nix talks from all over the world - piped.video/watch?v=oAzkHpSW…
#Nix & #NixOS
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Our Lead Engineer Tom Bereknyei helps cover the last 5 Nix releases in this video from @nixos_org . Much progress to celebrate!
A long overdue summary video of last 5 releases.
We can not include everything that happen, but we tried our best to select for you. If you think we missed something important please let us know.
#nixos #nix
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1/ isolated, reproducible environments 🎛️
forget about dependency hell. The isolated, atomic environments mean a clean workspace which you can safely rollback to any version.
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2023 going to be a big year 🚀... Happy New Year from the flox team!
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"Flox runs directly on host — you’ll have access to all your files and configs without relying on complex bind mount or other boilerploite parameters"
Awesome community post from Pierre Beuchere:
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4/ Get Nix'd 🪄
Our central mission is to make Nix's superpowers more accessible to a broader audience of developers, teams and enterprises.
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#Nix is a powerful way to create reproducible dev environments, but not everyone can commit to mastering it. #Flox helps deliver the capabilities of Nix—plus the 120,000 packages in Nixpkgs—with the convenience of git and brew. Get the scoop here!
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At #DockerCon, a few months ago, @bereknyei from our team spoke with Jim Clark from @docker about how Docker and #Nix can work together to bring reproducibility to your container images! Tune in below
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Come check out our very own @garbas speaking at #devoxxpoland about package management with #nix
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That's it! Check out the docs here floxdev.com/docs/projects
Let us know what features you'd like to see next!
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Want your own RAG powered AI?
Our friends at @weaviate_io make a great UI and vector db.
`flox activate --start-services`
and you're running it all on your Linux server and your Mac 🍎👨💻
... Natively.
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perfect example of using flox to make dev experience wonderful ✨: clone and run "flox develop" and ... that's it, setup complete.
check this project out and contribute! @tsiry_sndr 👑
"Superviseur" now supports starting services in isolated @floxdevelopment environments 🎉
github.com/tsirysndr/supervi…
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We produce Nix in the Wild articles to spread the word about Nix. But we also want to learn about challenges that users experience.
@TomDididuk highlights the need for "a comprehensive introductory guide that explains Nix from the ground up" 👍
#NixOS
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Making Nix usable with rust - Some Friday reading from Zach Mitchell, a software engineer on our team
filtra.io/rust-flox-mar-24
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The first flox magic trick: it's incredibly easy to create ephemeral environments that you can use to test out new #development tools and frameworks using #NixOS packages.
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5/ Try it out today 🌟
Join our beta ~~> floxdev.com/beta
Join the discussion on Discourse ~~> discourse.floxdev.com/
♥️♥️
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From Tom Dimiduk on Nix: “It clicked in my brain. This is how you should manage computers."
(we agree!)
#NixOS #linux #containers
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At GitHub Universe 2023, @ronefroni sat down with the GitHub team to talk about flox and share thoughts on open source, AI, and the state of software development. The video is now live ⬇⬇⬇
bit.ly/3UEXfqZ
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Want to understand what's inside a Flox manifest? Part two of our Intro to Flox series shows how you can use aliases and hooks to bring your Flox environment to life.
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You can use Flox remote environments🌛 to quickly start a Jupyter Notebook server in your project…and when you're done, it leaves nothing behind. It's ephemeral Jupyter - no venv, no container! Learn how ⬇️#python #jupyter
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3/ share your environment like you share code ⛓️
flox lets you share any environment via a git repo, with familiar push/pull semantics. provide your team with bit-for-bit reproducibility, and stop maintaining an army of setup scripts.
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Our mission is to help developers and enterprises realize the value of Nix with new and powerful capabilities. flox environments as code provide easy access to all the software packages and dependencies. Try the beta!
floxdev.com/docs/
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The @floxdevelopment team will be on the ground at @devopsdayschi! Come talk with us about flox and Nix!
Join us for a happy hour to connect with the @devopschi community on August 9th | 5:30PM at O’Neill’s Bar - space is limited.
RSVP here:
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#devopsdays
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