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Each Federated Core Platform installation has a Gitea respository where the software (OS, utilities, platform, open source SaaS) for the entire system is tracked. The operator of each installation is able to package those updates into regular upgrades pushed out to some/all Cores on the system, push them out individually for testing to some Cores, or schedule updates for a given list of Cores.

Since the nature of the Federated Core Platform is delivering open source SaaS to customers, there needs to be a testing protocol set up to ensure updates are in fact needed/wanted. Federated Computer does this centrally, so operators using Federated Core Platform can know the software will "work". However, there may be additional concerns with respect to security, other customizations that need to be tested, etc.

While Federated Core Platform draws much of the software from DockerHub, there are container images maintained by Federated Computer and, over time, more of the container images will come from Federated Computer rather than DockerHub. The principle reason for this is to add an additional step for quality and security.
