[et-mgmt-tools] ANNOUNCE: Augeas - a configuration API

[Mike MacCana]

On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 15:01 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 01:39:06PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:17 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Mike MacCana <mmaccana at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 13:07 -0700, David Lutterkort 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.
> > > >
> > > >  ???The amount of effort spent creating and re-creating tools to parse, edit
> > > > and transform a variety of unnecessary, unstructured data formats over the
> > > > last 30 years, and to continue doing this for the next 10 years, is less
> > > > than that required to:
> > > >
> > 
> > (create a standard format, proactively patch apps to support a standard
> > format, make an editor for that format, and start shipping packages)
> 
> Back in the real world people also want to be able to manage existing deployed
> production applications today. Even if you convince upstream to adopt your
> grand unified configuration scheme

I'm not proposing to get upstream acceptance of anything. You can't fix
these things without pissing a few people off - luckily, upstream
doesn't ship operating systems - distributions do.

Not saying tools like cfengine, puppet, augeas aren't useful solutions,
but let's recognise them for what they are - bandaid solutions.

Cheers,

Mike

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