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// * installing/install_config/installing-customizing.adoc

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= About Butane

[role="_abstract"]
Butane is a command-line utility that {product-title} uses to provide convenient, short-hand syntax for writing machine configs, and for performing additional validation of machine configs. The format of the Butane config file that Butane accepts is defined in the Butane config specification.
