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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-bootstrap(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140523333444944"></a>cdist-bootstrap(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_introduction">2. INTRODUCTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_location">3. LOCATION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_setup_working_directory_and_branch">4. SETUP WORKING DIRECTORY AND BRANCH</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_publishing_the_configuration">5. PUBLISHING THE CONFIGURATION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_updating_from_origin">6. UPDATING FROM ORIGIN</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-bootstrap - setup cdist environment</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_introduction"></a>2. INTRODUCTION</h2></div></div></div><p>This document describes the usual steps recommended for a new
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-bootstrap(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140510622790704"></a>cdist-bootstrap(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_introduction">2. INTRODUCTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_location">3. LOCATION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_setup_working_directory_and_branch">4. SETUP WORKING DIRECTORY AND BRANCH</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_publishing_the_configuration">5. PUBLISHING THE CONFIGURATION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_updating_from_origin">6. UPDATING FROM ORIGIN</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-bootstrap - setup cdist environment</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_introduction"></a>2. INTRODUCTION</h2></div></div></div><p>This document describes the usual steps recommended for a new
cdist setup. It is recommended that you have read and understood
cdist-quickstart(7) before digging into this.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_location"></a>3. LOCATION</h2></div></div></div><p>First of all, you should think about where to store your configuration
database and who will be accessing or changing it. Secondly you have to

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-hacker(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140492475408960"></a>cdist-hacker(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_welcome">2. WELCOME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_reporting_bugs">3. REPORTING BUGS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_coding_conventions_everywhere">4. CODING CONVENTIONS (EVERYWHERE)</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_how_to_submit_stuff_for_inclusion_into_upstream_cdist">5. HOW TO SUBMIT STUFF FOR INCLUSION INTO UPSTREAM CDIST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_how_to_submit_a_new_type">6. HOW TO SUBMIT A NEW TYPE</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-hacker - How to get (stuff) into cdist</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_welcome"></a>2. WELCOME</h2></div></div></div><p>Welcome dear hacker! I invite you to a tour of pointers to
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-hacker(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm139928837461168"></a>cdist-hacker(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_welcome">2. WELCOME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_reporting_bugs">3. REPORTING BUGS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_coding_conventions_everywhere">4. CODING CONVENTIONS (EVERYWHERE)</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_how_to_submit_stuff_for_inclusion_into_upstream_cdist">5. HOW TO SUBMIT STUFF FOR INCLUSION INTO UPSTREAM CDIST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_how_to_submit_a_new_type">6. HOW TO SUBMIT A NEW TYPE</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-hacker - How to get (stuff) into cdist</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_welcome"></a>2. WELCOME</h2></div></div></div><p>Welcome dear hacker! I invite you to a tour of pointers to
get into the usable configuration mangament system, cdist.</p><p>The first thing to know is probably that cdist is brought to
you by people who care about how code looks like and who think
twice before merging or implementing a feature: Less features

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-manifest(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm139650551143104"></a>cdist-manifest(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_description">2. DESCRIPTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_initial_and_type_manifests">3. INITIAL AND TYPE MANIFESTS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_define_state_in_the_initial_manifest">4. DEFINE STATE IN THE INITIAL MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_splitting_up_the_initial_manifest">5. SPLITTING UP THE INITIAL MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_dependencies">6. DEPENDENCIES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_examples">7. EXAMPLES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">8. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">9. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-manifest - (Re-)Use types</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_description"></a>2. DESCRIPTION</h2></div></div></div><p>Manifests are used to define which objects to create.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-manifest(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140332597050608"></a>cdist-manifest(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_description">2. DESCRIPTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_initial_and_type_manifests">3. INITIAL AND TYPE MANIFESTS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_define_state_in_the_initial_manifest">4. DEFINE STATE IN THE INITIAL MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_splitting_up_the_initial_manifest">5. SPLITTING UP THE INITIAL MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_dependencies">6. DEPENDENCIES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_examples">7. EXAMPLES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">8. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">9. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-manifest - (Re-)Use types</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_description"></a>2. DESCRIPTION</h2></div></div></div><p>Manifests are used to define which objects to create.
Objects are instances of <span class="strong"><strong>types</strong></span>, like in object oriented programming languages.
An object is represented by the combination of
<span class="strong"><strong>type + slash + object name</strong></span>: <span class="strong"><strong><span class="emphasis"><em>file/etc/cdist-configured</em></span> is an

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-reference(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140574032866944"></a>cdist-reference(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_explorers">2. EXPLORERS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_paths">3. PATHS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_types">4. TYPES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_objects">5. OBJECTS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_environment_variables">6. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-reference - Variable, path and type reference for cdist</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_explorers"></a>2. EXPLORERS</h2></div></div></div><p>The following global explorers are available:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-reference(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140480388258256"></a>cdist-reference(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_explorers">2. EXPLORERS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_paths">3. PATHS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_types">4. TYPES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_objects">5. OBJECTS</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_environment_variables">6. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">7. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">8. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-reference - Variable, path and type reference for cdist</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_explorers"></a>2. EXPLORERS</h2></div></div></div><p>The following global explorers are available:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">
hostname
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>cdist-stages(7)</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="docbook-xsl.css" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1" /></head><body><div xml:lang="en" class="article" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a id="idm140356744280992"></a>cdist-stages(7)</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">Nico</span> <span class="surname">Schottelius</span></h3><code class="email">&lt;<a class="email" href="mailto:nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org">nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org</a>&gt;</code></div></div></div><hr /></div><div class="toc"><p><strong>Table of Contents</strong></p><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_name">1. NAME</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_description">2. DESCRIPTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_1_target_information_retrieval">3. STAGE 1: TARGET INFORMATION RETRIEVAL</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_2_run_the_initial_manifest">4. STAGE 2: RUN THE INITIAL MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_3_object_information_retrieval">5. STAGE 3: OBJECT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_4_run_the_object_manifest">6. STAGE 4: RUN THE OBJECT MANIFEST</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_5_code_generation">7. STAGE 5: CODE GENERATION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_6_code_execution">8. STAGE 6: CODE EXECUTION</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_stage_7_cache">9. STAGE 7: CACHE</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_summary">10. SUMMARY</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_see_also">11. SEE ALSO</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="#_copying">12. COPYING</a></span></dt></dl></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_name"></a>1. NAME</h2></div></div></div><p>cdist-stages - Stages used during configuration deployment</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_description"></a>2. DESCRIPTION</h2></div></div></div><p>Starting the execution of deployment with cdist, cdist passes
through different stages.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="_stage_1_target_information_retrieval"></a>3. STAGE 1: TARGET INFORMATION RETRIEVAL</h2></div></div></div><p>In this stage information is collected about the target host using so called
explorers. Every existing explorer is run on the target and the output of all
explorers are copied back into the local cache. The results can be used by