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description: "Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips"
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          <h1>Immutable Linux Derivatives at your fingertips</h1>
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            <h4>Elemental is a toolkit to build, ship and maintain cloud-init driven Linux derivatives with containers..</h4>
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      <h4>Great For</h4>
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        <h5>Embedded</h5>
        <h5>Appliances</h5>
        <h5>Edge</h5>
        <h5>True DevOps</h5>
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  <h2>Why Use Elemental toolkit ?</h2>
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    <h5>Built for DevOps</h5>
    <p>Elemental toolkit allows to maintain custom Linux derivatives in a GitOps style with container registries.</p>
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    <h5>Operational Happiness</h5>
    <p>Upgrade machines from container images in OTA style - manually or automatically within kubernetes.</p>
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    <h5>Bring your own OS</h5>
    <p>A common featureset shared between Elemental derivatives, completely pluggable.</p>
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    <h5>Single Image OS</h5>
    <p>derivatives built with Elemental are single container image OS that are bootable from a system. They follow an A/B update style and gets upgrades from regular container registries.</p>
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            <h2 class="font-weight-bolder mb-0">How it Works<br></h2>
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    <h2>Get Started</h2>
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      <h4>Step 1.<br/><tt>git clone <a href="https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit" target="_blank">https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit</a></tt></h4>
      <h4>Step 2.<br/><tt>docker build -t example examples/standard</tt></h4>
      <h4>Step 3.<br/><tt>elemental upgrade example</tt></h4>
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    <p>That’s it! With just a few commands, you have your own custom OS.</p>
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        <p class="text-center">Ready to upgrade?</p>
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          <a href="https://github.com/rancher/elemental-toolkit" target="blank" class="btn">Build with Elemental toolkit today</a>
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