diff --git a/tools/test/bin/onos-config b/tools/test/bin/onos-config
index 082f506..178bd23 100755
--- a/tools/test/bin/onos-config
+++ b/tools/test/bin/onos-config
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
 
 remote=$ONOS_USER@${1:-$OCI}
 
-# Customize features
-export ONOS_FEATURES="${ONOS_FEATURES:-webconsole,onos-api,onos-core,onos-cli,onos-rest,onos-gui,onos-openflow}"
+# ONOS boot features
+export ONOS_BOOT_FEATURES="${ONOS_BOOT_FEATURES:-webconsole,onos-api,onos-core,onos-cli,onos-rest,onos-gui}"
 
+# ONOS builtin apps and providers ignited by default
+export ONOS_APPS="${ONOS_APPS:-openflow}"
 
 # Generate a cluster.json from the ON* environment variables
 CDEF_FILE=/tmp/${remote}.cluster.json
@@ -40,9 +42,14 @@
     echo "log4j.logger.com.hazelcast.cluster.impl.MulticastService= ERROR" \
         >> $ONOS_INSTALL_DIR/$KARAF_DIST/etc/org.ops4j.pax.logging.cfg
 
-    # Patch the Apache Karaf distribution file to load ONOS features
-    perl -pi.old -e \"s|^(featuresBoot=.*,management)(,webconsole,.*)|\1,$ONOS_FEATURES|\" \
+    # Patch the Apache Karaf distribution file to load ONOS boot features
+    perl -pi.old -e \"s|^(featuresBoot=.*,management)(,webconsole,.*)|\1,$ONOS_BOOT_FEATURES|\" \
         $ONOS_INSTALL_DIR/$KARAF_DIST/etc/org.apache.karaf.features.cfg
+
+    # Customize which builtin apps should be ignited
+    for app in $(echo $ONOS_APPS | tr ',' ' '); do
+        touch $ONOS_INSTALL_DIR/apps/org.onosproject.\$app/active
+    done
 "
 
 # Generate a default tablets.json from the ON* environment variables
@@ -52,4 +59,3 @@
 
 # copy tools/package/config/ to remote
 scp -qr ${ONOS_ROOT}/tools/package/config/ $remote:$ONOS_INSTALL_DIR/
-