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<p>Module providing operations to execute on all container providers</p>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="variables">Variables<ahref="#variables"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Variables"title="Direct link to Variables"></a></h2>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="functions">Functions<ahref="#functions"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Functions"title="Direct link to Functions"></a></h2>
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