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+# Image Gallary
+
+This is a minimalistic microservice to run an image host.
+Does not provide the proxy to connect to the services.
+
+Automatic unit testing is done by CircleCI
+
+Refer to the docker README for docker info
+
+License: MIT
+Copyright 2018 David Todd (c0de) c0de@c0defox.es
+Check the LICENSE file for further details