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title: Summary
author: Franklin Bristow
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Summary
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This week we've been focusing on getting operating systems and tools running in
virtual environments, and we've found a pretty reasonable use case for
containers (we got a fully configured `pandoc` on our own machines!).

You should now be able to:

::: outcomes

* [X] Install and configure virtual machine software.
* [X] Download and use a pre-installed operating system in a virtual machine
  software.
* [X] Run a command within a container.
* [X] Initialize a server in a publicly available cloud computing environment
  (e.g., AWS).

:::

You should now be ready to start working on the assignment!