This is interesting.. out of curiosity, do you have plans for integrating it with Puppet?
Cheers, P On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:08 PM, David Lutterkort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am pleased to announce a new configuration management project: Augeas, > a low-level configuration API and editing tool. > > Augeas' main goal is to make programmatic changes of configuration data > on Linux/Unix systems simple and safe. The main stumbling stone for this > is that configuration data is stored in numerous files in widely varying > formats. This is both next to impossible to change and is valuable in > many situations. Rather than demanding a radical change, Augeas adapts > to this reality. > > Augeas parses configuration files in their native formats and transforms > them into a tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this > tree and saving it back into native config files > (/etc/hosts, /etc/grub.conf, ...). > > The tree abstracts away all the pesky details that make editing config > files with grep/sed/awk so challenging, and exposes config data > uniformly, regardless of the format in which it is actually stored. With > this approach, the programs/daemons relying on config files continue to > work as they do today, and editing config files with Augeas can be > interleaved with changing them by other means, from vi to existing perl > scripts. > > What is it ? > ============ > > Augeas consists of a C library and API, a command line tool to > manipulate configuration from the shell, and language bindings for Ruby > and Python. The file <-> tree transformations are driven by schema > descriptions, one for each file format. Schemas essentially consist of > regular expressions describing the file structure and instructions on > how to map matches into the tree. The hope is that over time, the set of > schemas becomes both complete and sufficiently widespread to provide a > canonical tree view of common configuration data. > > Where can I find Augeas > ======================= > > Augeas' website is http://augeas.net/ > Downloads can be found at http://augeas.net/download/ > To learn more, start with the introductory tour at > http://augeas.net/tour.html > Discussions around Augeas happen on augeas-devel, > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/augeas-devel > > Help wanted > =========== > > Augeas is a reasonable proof-of-concept as of now; there are lots of > things that need to be done, and that I would love for others to pitch > in. Some of them are listed in the todo list at > http://augeas.net/todo.html > > The most pressing issues right now though are > > * Enable your favorite config mgmt tool to use Augeas as the > low-level config editing tool > * Cover more config files and write schemes for them; even without > writing actual schema, a discussion on augeas-devel on how > config file X would best be mapped into the tree would be really > useful. > * Anything to improve the quality of the current implementation; I > know I cut some corners in the initial implementation, and any > review/patches to improve it would be useful. > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.openmanagement.org > http://lists.openmanagement.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.openmanagement.org http://lists.openmanagement.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
