# Confluent

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Confluent is a software package to handle essential bootstrap and operation of scale-out server configurations.
It supports stateful and stateless deployments for various operating systems.

Check [this page](https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/whatisconfluent.html
) for a more detailed list of features.

Confluent is the modern successor of [xCAT](https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core).
If you're coming from xCAT, check out [this comparison](https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/confluentvxcat.html).

# Documentation

Confluent documentation is hosted on: https://xcat2.github.io/confluent-docs/

# Download

Get the latest version from: https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/downloads/

Check release notes on: https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/news/

# Open Source License

Confluent is made available under the Apache 2.0 license: https://opensource.org/license/apache-2-0

# Developers

Want to help? Submit a [Pull Request](https://github.com/xcat2/confluent/pulls).
