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 ### notes on the make / build of the container
 
 The Makefile will provision the docker container image from the Dockerfile which will provision the image with upstream ubuntu:latest and include all the required dependencies to 
-run the the unifi controller.
+run the unifi controller.
 
 The unifi controller repo will provide the .debs. The package requires mongodb, so if we dont
 include 10gen's official repo it will use stock debian mongo instead (current state)