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 Lab template for a Cloud provisioning/orchestration exercise with Terraform
 (TF) and SwitchEngines (OpenStack).
 
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-## Pedagogical objectives ##
-
-  * Become familiar with a Cloud provisioning/orchestration tool
-  * Provision Cloud resources in an automated fashion
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-
 ## Tasks ##
 
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-In this lab you will perform a number of tasks and document your progress in a
-lab report. Each task specifies one or more deliverables to be
-produced. Collect all the deliverables in your lab report.
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-
 **N.B.** Some tasks require interacting with your local machine's OS: any
 related commands are supposed to be run into a terminal with the following
 conventions about the *command line prompt*: