Re: [gentoo-user] [Extremely OT] Ansible/Puppet replacement

[Tomas Mozes]

On 2015-01-26 16:30, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on my own replacement for Bcfg2 - bossman[1] - over
> the past few months, and it's finally ready to be released in the wild.
> I would be honored if anyone on this list who's thinking of trying
> puppet, chef, ansible, bcfg2, etc. would try out bossman instead.
> bossman has an incredibly simple syntax; no ruby DSLs or XML. My main
> motivation for writing it was dealing with bcfg2's XML config on a
> daily
> basis. Additionally, bossman has a (hopefully) great 'pretend' mode and
> checks for a lot of errors.
>
> If you are already using another solution and have some time to check
> out bossman, I would love feedback. The only config manager I've used
> in
> practice is bcfg2, so getting perspectives from those using other
> solutions would be fantastic.
>
> bossman is written in C99 and is built with CMake.
>
> I don't recommend it for production deployments quite yet, but I plan
> on
> actively working on it. It currently only supports pulling
> configuration
> from a mounted filesystem (i.e. local disk, NFS, etc.), but HTTP
> support
> (and a deployment tutorial/guide) will be added in v0.2.
>
> I'm sorry to spam gentoo-user, but I'm not sure who else would be
> interested in something like this. Also, feel free to email me with
> bugs
> in the code or documentation, or open something in GitHub's issue
> tracker.
>
> Alec
>
> [1] https://github.com/trozamon/bossman/archive/v0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> [2] https://github.com/trozamon/bossman-roles

I haven't tested it yet, however I like the minimalistic syntax.

As an ansible user - do you plan to allow using default values for 
modules and/or variables?