What are roles?

Roles are the most important concept in provy. A role specifies one server capability, like user management or a package provider.

provy comes with many bundled roles, but you can very easily create your own roles. As a matter of fact, if you followed the Getting started tutorial, you have already created two custom roles.

Creating new roles is as easy as creating a class that inherits from provy.Role and implements a provision method.

This method is the one provy will call when this role is being provisioned into a given server.