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+# Containerised Jaffle Shop dbt Project
+This is a containerised version of the popular 
+[Jaffle Shop dbt project published by dbt Labs](https://github.com/dbt-labs/jaffle_shop). 
+You can use this project to populate and run Jaffle Shop in a Postgres instance.
+
+# Running the project with Docker