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            <h2>Quick Start</h2>
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            <p>The Quick Start installation fully automates the provisioning and deployment of Apache Metron and all necessary prerequisites on a single, virtualized host running on VirtualBox.</p>
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            <p> This image is designed for quick deployment of a single node Metron cluster running on VirtualBox. This platform is ideal for use by Metron developers. It uses a base image that has been pre-loaded with Ambari and HDP.</p>
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                <h2>Installation</h2>
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                <h5 class="bold blue-text">Ansible-based Vagrant single node VM install</h5> <br>
                <p>This is the best place to play with Metron first. This approach uses the Quick Start installation which automates the provisioning and deployment of Apache Metron on a single, virtualized host running on VirtualBox.</p>
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                <h5 class="bold blue-text">Fully automated 10 Node Ansible-based install on AWS using Ambari blueprints and AWS APIs</h5> <br>
                <p>If you want a more realistic setup of the Metron application, use this approach. This install creates a full-functioning, end-to-end, multi-node cluster running Apache Metron. Keep in mind that this install will spin up 10 m4.xlarge EC2 instances by default.</p>
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        <h2>DOCS Home</h2>
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        <p> Apache Metron documentation provides information on quickly getting started with Metron, performing a full installation, adding additional data sources, and using Metron to triage alerts. Metron documentation is currently a work in progress. Please check back again later as we continue to grow this documentation set.</p>
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            <h4>Current Release: 0.4.0</h4>
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            <h4>Older Releases</h4>
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        If you need access to older releases they can be found in the <a href="https://archive.apache.org/dist/metron/">release archives</a>.
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