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| author | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-03-30 02:44:40 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-03-30 02:44:40 -0400 |
| commit | 49231c74a1449c7f8c4c07fdafdf4e0b2d51400b (patch) | |
| tree | 503a2ed3a3dbeeb32db39777ff0601c3873e319a /README | |
| parent | c4afc9c90f9016b3ecfa96193c531c73ccbdeae4 (diff) | |
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@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ This is a work in progress configuration management system using Haskell and Git. -The design is intentionally very bare bones: A git repository holds the -source to a program that ensures that the system meets a set of properties, -taking action as necessary when a property is not yet met. +The design is intentionally very bare bones: Propellor enures that +the system it's run in satisfies a list of properties, taking action as +necessary when a property is not yet met. -Once set up, a system will have this git repository cloned to it, and -the program will be built and run periodically by a cron job. Or something +Propellor lives in a git repository, and so to set it up it's cloned +to a system, and "make" can be used to pull down any new changes, +and compile and run propellor. This can be done by a cron job. Or something can ssh in and run it. -For bootstrapping, the program compiles to a single binary file, +For bootstrapping, propellor compiles to a single binary file, which can be transferred to a host and run. Properties are defined using Haskell. There is no special language as used |