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+Osmocom docker playground
+=========================
+
+This repository contains some humble attempts at creating some Docker
+containers + related stacks around Osmocom.   So far, the main focus is
+test automation.
+
+See http://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20170503-docker-overhyped/ for
+related rambling on why this doesn't work as well as one would want.