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      <h1>Documentation</h1>
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          <a href="/getstarted/index.html">Getting Started</a>
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          Read the getting started guide to find out how to download and install fabric8 in your own environment.
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          <a href="/gitbook/index.html">User Guide</a>
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          Read the full user guide on all things fabric8
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          <a href="http://fabric8.io/v2/index.html">User Guide (2.0 Alpha)</a> (in progress!)
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          Read the user guide of the in progress 2.x branch of fabric8 which is based on <a href="http://docker.io/">Docker</a> and <a href="http://kubernetes.io">Kubernetes</a>. You can see the <a href="http://fabric8.io/v2/v2-changes.html">version 2.x differences here</a>.
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          <a href="/gitbook/FAQ.html">FAQ</a>
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          Read commonly asked questions about the fabric8 project, including solutions to common problems getting started with fabric8.
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          <a href="/changes/index.html">Change Log</a>
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          The change log in recent releases.
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          <a href="/developers/index.html">Developers</a>
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          Read how to get started building fabric8 and work with the code
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          <a href="/contributing/index.html">Contributing</a>
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          Read how to help out and contribute to the fabric8 project
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          <a href="/articles/index.html">Articles</a>
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          View articles, presentations, blog posts and view recorded screencast demonstrations by fabric8 developers and users.
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