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+# FluentCI CI/CD demo for Flask and MongoDB
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+[![ci](https://github.com/fluentci-demos/fluentci-demo-python-flask/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/fluentci-demos/fluentci-demo-python-flask/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
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+This is an example application and CI/CD pipeline showing how to build, test a Python Flask application using FluentCI.
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