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| author | Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov> | 2004-11-08 20:59:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov> | 2004-11-08 20:59:47 +0000 |
| commit | bb0b74b629b40df54a9304aac4ac7f1304a8ffce (patch) | |
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@@ -1,23 +1,33 @@ -Release 0.3 - $Id: $ +Release 0.6 - $Id: $ -This is the Bcfg2 repo. It is a configuration management system -designed to ease the management of networks of heterogenous -systems. The system has been completely redesigned and reimplemented -from version 1. +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]. -Currently, bcfg2 is in alpha-ish state. The server infrastructure can -produce configurations in clients based on the a set of structures and -generators. Generators can provide clients with probes to execute -(guiding the configuration generation process) and recieve the data -these probes generate. Client statistics are not currently generated. +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 bcfg2 client is a lot more rough. The client works, though its -adherence to bundle semantics is probably not what it should be. It -successfully one-way validates configurations. Two-way support is not -yet implemented. +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 |