Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: cifit
Version: 0.3
Summary: Lightweight configuration management toolkit which you write in python
Home-page: UNKNOWN
Author: Craig Sawyer
Author-email: csawyer@yumaed.org
License: GPLv2
Description: cifit is a lightweight configuration management toolkit, it patterns itself off of cfengine
        a little bit (it has classes), borrows from bcfg2, but the language to manage your
        configurations is python.
        
        Currently cifit only is tested against OSX (partly) and Debian & Ubuntu (systems with apt installed). Everything here should work or be extensible against any posix compliant box you can get python on.  it *could* be made to work on windows, patches accepted.
        
        see docs/ for documentation.
        see examples/ for a few rudimentary examples.
        
        The idea behind this code is that you write a config file (.cft) that is in python, but you only run the code thru cifit.
        
        Doing this gives you a bunch of built-ins that make managing systems easier.
        
        Normally I run cifit from crontab every 5 minutes.
        
        You should put your configs in a Version Control system (say subversion or git)  then it's also easy to update configs:
        
        cifit automatically puts the current directory to the basename of the .cft file that cifit runs, so to do a svn update:
        
        files.run('svn update')
        
        it's easy to manage your system or pear or python packages:
        
        packages = ['apache2','ssh','php5']
        for p in packages:
        pkg.installPackage(p)
        
        it's easy to change or update your files: (on multiple runs it will NOT append it twice).
        files.append('/etc/issue',['This system is managed by cifit'])
        
        It's easy to use sed like replacements on a file.
        for example to turn magic_quotes off:
        files.sub("/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini",["/magic_quotes_gpc = On/magic_quotes_gpc = Off/"])
        
        It's easy to keep apache running:
        if not procs.checkService('apache2'):
        procs.startService('apache2')
        
        Why yet another Configuration Management Engine?
        
        I love python. I hate XML, I love the ideas behind cfengine, but I can't
        understand the magic behind it to actually do something useful. I understand python, so I write my configs in python.
        
Keywords: config,system
Platform: UNKNOWN
