Use Cases

Some of the important use cases of Machinery are:

• Inspecting a System and Collecting Information

Collecting a variety of information. Limit the gathered information with scopes (see section about scopes). Each inspection step updates the system description.

• Reviewing System Description

After a successful inspection, the system description can be displayed on the console or the output can be fed into other tools.

• Cloning a System

An inspected system can be cloned. The inspection step returns a system description which is used as the basis for cloning physical or virtual instances. Machinery can build a system image from the description, which can then for example be deployed to a cloud environment.