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31 lines
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## Deterministic Deployment
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The Dedupe filesystem flist uses an interface which allows you to create the file system interface in user space, it is a virtual filesystem.
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Metadata is exposed. The system sees the full tree of the image, but data itself is not there, data is downloaded whenever they are accessed and fully deduped (unique data).
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>TODO: improve
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### Benefits
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- Smart contract for IT
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The smart contract for IT concept is applicable to any workload: containers, VMs, all gateways primitives, volumes, kubernetes and network.
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It is a static agreement between farmer and user about deployment of an IT workload
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- no dynamic behavior for deployment at runtime
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- no process can start unless the files are 100% described on flist level
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### There are multiple ways to create an flist:
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- Convert an existing docker image which is hosted on the docker hub
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- Push an archive like a tgz on the hub
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- A library and CLI tool exist to build the flist from scratch: doing it this way, the directory is locally populated, and the flist is then created from the CLI tool
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- A [GitHub action](https://github.com/threefoldtech/publish-flist) allows to build a flist directly from GitHub action, useful for developers on GitHub
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