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+# Container environments for Forgejo Actions
+
+Many actions developers are targeting GitHub Actions and assume that Node.js
+is available by default. This is not the case in Forgejo Actions, and we need
+to add Node.js to community provided images explicitly.
+
+This repo contains Dockerfile for images used by TrueCloudLab.