---

title: Locations layout: website-normal children:

• { path: location-customizers.md, section_position: 8 } check_directory_for_children: true

---

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

Brooklyn supports a wide range of locations:

• Clouds, where it will provision machines
• Localhost (e.g. your laptop), where it will deploy via ssh to localhost for rapid testing
• BYON, 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/brooklyn.properties, through the location wizard tool available within the web console 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 %}