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 Docker has become wildly successful for implementing all manner
 of fast-boot/fast-destroy emphemeral computing.  Normally, you
 configure a container to do one important thing - run a web server,
-host a Jenkins instance ... - then just fire-and-forget afterwards.
+host a Jenkins instance ... Then just fire-and-forget afterwards.
 
 But you can also use docker to build general purpose sandboxes.  To do
 this, you need to make it easy to log into a running container just
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 Not only is this tooling useful for building and using sandboxes, it's
 a good way to learn how docker and ansible work.  Take the time to
-explore the various ansible filed and dockerfile specifications. There
+explore the various ansible files and dockerfile specifications. There
 are comments throughout to help explain what's going on and why.
 
 Here are a few ideas of how to expand on what you see here: