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-Swarmlab provides the user with the unique abillity to *create Labrooms* (or other applications) and *share* them as project images expanding the simple ideas to full-blown systems.
+== Intro
+
+*An open source work/study-from-home application.*
+
+
+Swarmlab provides you with all the required tools, tools to teach work or try out demos in a completely virtual environment.
+
+
+*Swarmlab is a collection of services that aims to:*
+
+*    provide *teachers* and professors with online remote tools to do their lessons
+
+*    give *students* the opportunity to study real life examples in their chosen area of expertise
+
+*    allow *developers* to fully test and debug their applications and provide POC’s
+
+
+Swarmlab, up and running since 2020, is already used for teaching teaching purposes in a university and has proven itself as a powerful tool in the post covid remote-based situation.
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+
+
+*As of now the services provided by swarmlab are:*
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+
+* *Labrooms*(virtual classrooms in the form of model applications to be tweaked at will)
+
+**    linux → base linux system – designed for use as a base to further develop your app
+
+**    MPI → Instances of Ubuntu Linux with MPICH -- portable implementation of Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard. Designed for MPI program development and deployment.
+
+**    Node.js
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+**    sec → a basic linux-based os with security tools – designed as a template for apps
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+
+* *Storage* to automatically create a cluster of databases.
 
 
-* "*Swarmlab*" is developed with a platform agnostic" container-based application strategy
+* *Proof Of Concept* (POC) options
+
+**    datacollector → using provided services a fully developed application may collect data from a swarm and use it for further analysis
+
+
+* *Microservices*
+
+**     Jupyter
+ 
+**     numpy
+ 
+**     scipy
+ 
+**     nodejs
+ 
+**     nginx
+ 
+**     haproxy
+ 
+**     gns3
+ 
+**     wireshark
+ 
+**     snmpsim
+ 
+**     xelatexthesis
+ 
+**     ansible
+
+**     etherpad
+ 
+**     codeserver (vscode)
+ 
+**     redisserver
+ 
+**     mongoserver
+ 
+**     mongoclient (GUI)
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+
+
+ to be continued…
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+And all the above using just the command line of your system!
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+
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+Source code is available at https://git.swarmlab.io:3000 under the AGPL licence.
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+== platform agnostic
+
+*Swarmlab* is developed with a platform agnostic" container-based application strategy
 
-[NOTE]
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 A platform-agnostic approach offers many choices
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 ** to a running cloud native - container-based environment
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-An all of that using only the browser and the command line of their system.
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-== Intro
-
-You will be connected to the Swarmlab Cloud (hence HYBRID) but you will be able to use your own storage(move files around, delete/copy etc), your own networking and computational power(cpu/graphics etc) and create a system exactly the way you need it.
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-This way you will be able to :
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-* create images for testing.
-* Run them using docker.
-* Share them for others to use and develop.
-* Finally browse the cloud for shared images to integrate into your project and make it even better.
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-== Ready to run out-of-the-box
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-Normally the docker dataflow is as described in the following images:
 
-image:https://git.swarmlab.io:3000/zeus/swarmlab-hybrid/raw/branch/master/docs/images/docker-build.png[]
-image:https://git.swarmlab.io:3000/zeus/swarmlab-hybrid/raw/branch/master/docs/images/docker-run.png[]
 
 == Services