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Welcome to the Chimera wiki!

Chimera is a deployment system built on top of apt that aims to be the most simple way to deploy multiple, semi-isolated environments to a server. The main concept is to create an environment out of the way of the OS so that specific versions of binaries may be installed to an environment, but different environments may use different libraries. Unlike chroot, the use of symlinks means that the data does not need to be copied, so a binary or library of a specific version only needs to exist in once place.

This project is focused on making deployments easy so ease of deploying new code, rolling back in case of problems, and safety during deployment are the paramount concerns.