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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Airship is the name for the project formerly known as UCP or the Undercloud
 Platform.
 
 Find more documentation for Airship in a Bottle on
-`Read the Docs <https://airshipit.readthedocs.io/>`_.
+[Read the Docs](https://airshipit.readthedocs.io/).
 
 To get started, run the following in a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 VM
 (minimum 4vCPU/20GB RAM/32GB disk). This will deploy Airship and Openstack Helm