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Release 0.6 - $Id: $
Bcfg2 is a configuration management tool based on a few simple principles.
- All aspects of system configuration can be described by the configuration
management system.
- All aspects of system configuration are described by the configuration
management system. This allows the detection of extra configuration
that contributes to system behavior.
- Services must be management coherently. This means that the tool must
be able to determine how to correctly install all aspects of configuration,
and verify that these are active before a host is determined to be clean.
This property is implemented using bundles, a construct that is similar
to closures [1].
The state of the code is as follows. The server side is fairly solid,
and will continue working in the presence of generator faults. The
client side fully supports debian toolsets, and all of the standard
posix constructs used for configuration management (configuration
files, symlinks, directories, etc)
The code is currently being used in production to manage debian
systems. There is client support for other architectures, but it
hasn't been well tested.
The source tree is structured in the following way:
doc/ - documentation
src/ - source code
schemas/ - schemas defining the data format for configuration files
[1] Seeking Closure in an Open World: A Behavioral Agent Approach
to Configuration Management, Alva Couch, John Hart,
Elizabeth G. Idhaw, and Dominic Kallas, in the proceedings of LISA03
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