Setting up a Project Atomic host

Project Atomic facilitates application-centric IT architecture by providing an end-to-end solution to deploy containerized applications quickly and reliably, with atomic update and rollback for the application and host alike.

This is achieved by running applications in containers on a Project Atomic host, which is a lightweight operating system specially designed to run containers. The hosts can be based on Fedora, CentOS, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Next, we will elaborate on the building blocks of the Project Atomic host.

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