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Tim Hardeck edited this page Jul 29, 2016 · 24 revisions

Introduction

Machinery is a systems management toolkit for Linux. It supports configuration discovery, system validation, and service migration.

This Wiki is intended for users that want to know how to do specific tasks with Machinery.

Technical documentation is primarily collected in the docs directory in the code repository. There you can find design documents for the internals of Machinery.

Machinery is open source. We welcome contributions. Please read the guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

User Documentation

If this is your first time hearing about Machinery, we recommend starting with the Machinery website.

The primary user documentation is the machinery man page. It contains the reference documentation for using Machinery including a higher-level overview and examples. When you have installed machinery on your system you can run machinery man --html to view it.

This Wiki provides a place for collecting additional user documentation. It is open for contributions by everyone interested.