mgmt: This is: mgmt!

Community:

Come join us on IRC in #mgmtconfig on Freenode! You may like the #mgmtconfig hashtag if you're on Twitter.

Questions:

Please join the #mgmtconfig IRC community! If you have a well phrased question that might benefit others, consider asking it by sending a patch to the documentation FAQ section. I'll merge your question, and a patch with the answer!

Quick start:

• Either get the golang dependencies on your own, or run make deps if you're comfortable with how we install them.
• Run make build to get a fresh built mgmt binary.
• Run cd $(mktemp --tmpdir -d tmp.XXX) && etcd to get etcd running. The mgmt software will do this automatically for you in the future.
• Run time ./mgmt run --file examples/graph0.yaml --converged-timeout=1 to try out a very simple example!
• To run continuously in the default mode of operation, omit the --converged-timeout option.
• Have fun hacking on our future technology!

Examples:

Please look in the examples/ folder for more examples!

Documentation:

Please see: DOCUMENTATION.md or PDF.

Bugs:

Please set the DEBUG constant in main.go to true, and post the logs when you report the issue. Bonus points if you provide a shell or OMV reproducible test case. There are currently a few known bugs which I hope to squash soon.

Notes:

• This is currently a research project into next generation config management technologies!
• This is my first complex project in golang, please notify me of any issues.
• I have some well thought out designs for the future of this project, which I'll try and write up clearly and publish as soon as possible.
• The interfaces and code are not yet stable. Please run in development environments only!
• This design is the result of ideas I've had from hacking on advanced config management projects.
• I first started hacking on this in ~2013, even though I had very little time for it.
• I've published a number of articles about this tool:
  • https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/next-generation-configuration-mgmt/
• There are some screencasts available:
  • TODO

Dependencies:

• golang 1.4 or higher (required, available in most distros)

• golang libraries (required, available with go get)

    go get github.com/coreos/etcd/client
    go get gopkg.in/yaml.v2
    go get gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1
    go get github.com/codegangsta/cli
    go get github.com/coreos/go-systemd/dbus
    go get github.com/coreos/go-systemd/util
  

• stringer (required for building), available as a package on some platforms, otherwise via go get

    go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer
  

• pandoc (optional, for building a pdf of the documentation)

• graphviz (optional, for building a visual representation of the graph)

Patches:

We'd love to have your patch! Please send it by email, or as a pull request.

Happy hacking!