4.1.1. Background

4.1.1. Background

Koan is a tool coming out of Red Hat Emerging Technologies that is used to provision machines from Cobbler servers. Following the unix philosophy it's very simple to use and the man page will tell you everything you need to know. For more information check out the cobbler documentation.

Note

Most provisioning with the Genome tools can be done without having to work with Koan directly. However, a good understanding of its basic operation is useful for advanced usage of the Genome tooling.