Inline Children

In addition to the children property defining lower pages in the site structure, they can also be used to define inline sections within the current document. Inclusion in this way produces a menu link to an anchor in the current page.

Below is an example from /guide/ops/persistence/index.md:

children:
- { section: Command Line Options }
- { section: File-based Persistence }
- { section: Object Store Persistence }
- { section: Rebinding to State }
- { section: Writing Persistable Code }
- { section: Persisted State Backup }

Inline sections can also be detected from separate, child .md files. Including the tag check_directory_for_children: true in the YAML front matter of a page causes the site structure plug-in to look through the current directory for any .md files containing section_type: inline in the YAML front matter.

The content from these inline sections can then be included in the page content using the liquid tag child_content. This is shown below in an example from /guide/locations/index.md:

---
title: Locations
layout: website-normal
check_directory_for_children: true
---

Locations are the environments to which Brooklyn deploys applications, including:

Brooklyn supports a wide range of locations:

* <a href="#clouds">Clouds</a>, where it will provision machines
* <a href="#localhost">Localhost</a> (e.g. your laptop), 
  where it will deploy via `ssh` to `localhost` for rapid testing
* <a href="#byon">BYON</a>, where you "bring your own nodes",
  specifying already-existing hosts to use
* And many others, including object stores and online services

Configuration can be set in `brooklyn.cfg`
or directly in YAML when specifying a location.
On some entities, config keys determining matching selection and provisioning behavior
can also be set in `provisioning.properties`.

{% child_content %}