From 618179b1d6c36beae0b45778189ce39ec0f61d03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Whitton Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:42:13 -0700 Subject: rewrite first section of README.rst & Debian package description Signed-off-by: Sean Whitton --- debian/changelog | 6 ++++++ debian/control | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'debian') diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 0c8a621..10bea3a 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +consfigurator (0.9.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Rewrite long description. + + -- Sean Whitton Sun, 22 Aug 2021 11:39:43 -0700 + consfigurator (0.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 60cb533..e687ffa 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -51,28 +51,33 @@ Provides: Description: Lisp declarative configuration management system Consfigurator is a system for declarative configuration management using Common Lisp. You can use it to configure hosts as root, deploy services as - unprivileged users, build and deploy containers, and produce disc images. + unprivileged users, build and deploy containers, install operating systems, + produce disc images, and more. Some key advantages: . - Consfigurator's design gives you a great deal of flexibility about how to - control the hosts you want to configure. If there is a command you can run - which will obtain input and output streams attached to an interactive POSIX - sh running on the target host/container, then with a little glue code, you - can use much of Consfigurator's functionality to configure that - host/container. But if it is possible to get an implementation of Common - Lisp started up on the host, then Configurator can transparently execute your - deployment code over on the remote side, rather than exchanging information - via POSIX sh. This lets you use the full power of Common Lisp to deploy your - configuration. + * Apply configuration by transparently starting up another Lisp image on the + machine to be configured, so that you can use the full power of Common Lisp + to inspect and control the host. . - Configurator has convenient abstractions for combining these different ways - to execute your configuration on hosts with different ways of connecting to - them. Connections can be arbitrarily nested. + * Also define properties of hosts in a more restricted language, ``:POSIX`` + properties, to configure machines, containers and user accounts where you + can't install Lisp. These properties can be applied using just an SSH or + serial connection, but they can also be applied by remote Lisp images, + enabling code reuse. + . + * Flexibly chain and nest methods of connecting to hosts. For example, you + could have Consfigurator SSH to a host, sudo to root, start up Lisp, use + the setns(2) system call to enter a Linux container, and then deploy a + service. Secrets, and other prerequisite data, are properly passed along. + . + * Combine declarative semantics for defining hosts and services with a + multiparadigmatic general-purpose programming language that won't get in + your way. . Declarative configuration management systems like Consfigurator and Propellor share a number of goals with projects like the GNU Guix System and NixOS. However, tools like Consfigurator and Propellor try to layer the power of - declarative and reproducible configuration on top of traditional, - battle-tested unix system administration infrastructure like apt, dpkg, yum, - and distro package archives, rather than seeking to replace any of those. - Let's get as much as we can out of all that existing distro policy-compliant - work! + declarative and reproducible configuration semantics on top of traditional, + battle-tested UNIX system administration infrastructure like distro package + managers, package archives and daemon configuration mechanisms, rather than + seeking to replace any of those. Let's get as much as we can out of all that + existing distro policy-compliant work! -- cgit v1.2.3