1.2. Custom Machine Types

1.2. Custom Machine Types

A custom machine type in the Genome environment can be roughly described as a collection of known working puppet classes matched with an operating system (or more precisely, a cobbler profile). The list of machines that can be provisioned from a given Genome Appliance can be found when using the genome-bootstrap wizard or the genomed UI.

Note

See the cookbook for more information on creating custom machine types.

Important

From Puppet's point of view these "types" are not bound to any particular OS version. You choose the OS with genome-bootstrap or when provisioning directly with Koan. This allows users to test out different OS and applications versions using the same Puppet code.