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 ## Components
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 ### rune
 `rune` is a CLI tool for spawning and running enclaves in containers according to the OCI specification. The codebase of `rune` is a fork of [runc](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc), so `rune` can be used as `runc` if enclave is not configured or available.
 
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