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Introduction

Custom services in Apache Ambari can be packaged and installed in many ways.  Ideally, they should all be packaged and installed in the same manner.  This document describes how to package and install custom services using Extensions and Management Packs.  Using this approach, the custom service definitions do not get inserted under the stack versions services directory.  This keeps the stack clean and allows users to easily see which services were installed by which package (stack or extension).

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