Extending Cloudify With Custom Intrinsics

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Cloudify is highly extensible via its plugin-based architecture. The Cloudify blueprint parser, however, is not extensible. Most of the time, that’s not a problem. You can add functionality by writing custom plugins and workflows. Sometimes, however, extending the blueprint syntax is ideal.

Intrinsic functions in Cloudify, the concept of which flows from the OASIS TOSCA specification, are…