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+// Package bmdb implements a connector to the Bare Metal Database, which is the
+// main data store backing information about bare metal machines.
+//
+// All components of the BMaaS project connect directly to the underlying
+// CockroachDB database storing this data via this library. In the future, this
+// library might turn into a shim which instead connects to a coordinator
+// service over gRPC.
+package bmdb