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+.. _existing_templates:
+
+================================
+Where to find existing templates
+================================
+
+There are several repositories where you can find existing tested HOT
+templates.
+
+
+The `OpenStack Heat Templates repository`_ is a collection of example
+templates which demonstrates core Heat functionality, related image-building
+templates, template-related scripts and conversion tools.
+
+.. _OpenStack Heat Templates Repository: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/heat-templates/tree/
+
+The `OpenStack TripleO Heat Templates repository`_ contains a variety of
+heat templates that are included in the tripleo-heat-templates codebase.
+
+.. _OpenStack TripleO Heat Templates repository: http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tripleo-heat-templates/tree/
+
+Rackspace has provided a set of Heat templates at the `RCB Ops repository`_
+that can be used by cloud operators to launch applications, templates for
+building a multi-node OpenStack cluster, as well as templates for CI
+development. Heat templates for deployment of Magento, Hadoop, MongoDB,
+ELK, Drupal and more can be found here.
+
+.. _RCB Ops repository: http://github.com/rcbops/
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    software_deployment
    environment
    composition
+   existing_templates
    #advanced_topics
    #functions