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+Software Heritage System Administration Environment
+===================================================
+
+This repository contains the scaffolding to initialize and keep a local sysadmin
+environment for deploying the SoftwareHeritage Stack in environments.
+
+See:
+
+- puppet-environment for puppet related repositories
+- ci-environment: for ci related repositories