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-This HowTo teaches you how to use Services on SwarmLab. 
+The followin HowTo shows how services are used in swarmlabs!
 
 
 == What is swarmlab.io?
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 === http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/HowTo-gitea.adoc.html[HowTo-create Repo] 
 
-=== http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/HowTo-create-lab.adoc.html[HowTo-create_and_Run Lab Instance] 
+==== Repo Directory_Structure_4_Lab_Instance
+
+ Lab_Instance first clones your Repo and then automatically loads certain files based on a known file
+structure.
+
+
+.Directory_Structure
+[source,bash]
+----
+swarmlab/
+├── run
+├── runafter
+└── runbefore
+----
+
+===== runbefore
+
+ Lab_Instance dependencies. "runbefore" allows you to automatically pull-in other dependencies when using a Lab_Instance. This file should contain a list of tasks and parameters to insert before the specified repos are executed on Lab_Instance.
+
+===== run
+
+ Contains the main list of tasks to be executed by the Lab_Instance.
+
+===== runafter
+
+
+ Lab_Instances is the machanism that allows you to to permanently save your data. 
+
+ Lab_Instances are mortal, and it’s pretty much routine them to be stoped and deleted. 
+
+ If you have something like a data/log file that needs to be saved then at this point make sure to back it up! 
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+You can use any Script Programming Language you want to automate the
+execution of Lab_Instance
+
+The shebang **MUST** be in the first line
+
+.e.g.
+[source,bash]
+----
+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+print "hello world!\n";
+----
+
+
+====
+
+
+
+
+=== http://docs.swarmlab.io/SwarmLab-HowTos/HowTo-create-lab.adoc.html[HowTo-create_and_Run Lab_Instance]