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Introduction

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

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

User documentation

Our primary user documentation is the machinery man page. This 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 man machinery to view it.

This Wiki provides a place for collecting additional documentation, in particular for users. It is open to contributions by everybody interested.

Developer documentation

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. Plese read the guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

There is some supplementary information for developers here:

• [Commit Guidelines]
• [Licensing]