cdist(1)

Nico Schottelius

<nico-cdist--@--schottelius.org>

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. SYNOPSIS
3. DESCRIPTION
4. BANNER
5. CONFIG
6. EXAMPLES
7. ENVIRONMENT
8. EXIT STATUS
9. SEE ALSO
10. COPYING

1. NAME

cdist - Configuration management

2. SYNOPSIS

cdist [-h] [-V]

cdist banner

cdist config [-h] [-d] [-V] [-c CONF_DIR] [-i MANIFEST] [-p] [-s] host [host …]

3. DESCRIPTION

cdist is the frontend executable to the cdist configuration management. cdist supports different as explained below. The options to the main program are:

-h, --help: Show the help screen
-V, --version: Show version and exit

4. BANNER

Displays the cdist banner.

5. CONFIG

Configure a system

-h, --help: Show the help screen
-c CONF_DIR, --conf-dir CONF_DIR: Add a configuration directory. Can be specified multiple times. If configuration directories contain conflicting types, explorers or manifests, then the last one found is used. Additionally this can also be configured by setting the CDIST_PATH environment variable to a colon delimited list of config directories. Directories given with the --conf-dir argument have higher precedence over those set through the environment variable.
-d, --debug: Enable debug output
-i MANIFEST, --initial-manifest MANIFEST: Path to a cdist manifest or - to read from stdin
-p, --parallel: Operate on multiple hosts in parallel
-s, --sequential: Operate on multiple hosts sequentially

--remote-copy REMOTE_COPY: Command to use for remote copy (should behave like scp)

--remote-exec REMOTE_EXEC: Command to use for remote execution (should behave like ssh)

6. EXAMPLES

# Configure ikq05.ethz.ch with debug enabled
cdist config -d ikq05.ethz.ch

# Configure hosts in parallel and use a different configuration directory
cdist config -c ~/p/cdist-nutzung \
    -p ikq02.ethz.ch ikq03.ethz.ch ikq04.ethz.ch

# Use custom remote exec / copy commands
cdist config --remote-exec /path/to/my/remote/exec \
    --remote-copy /path/to/my/remote/copy \
    -p ikq02.ethz.ch ikq03.ethz.ch ikq04.ethz.ch

# Display banner
cdist banner

# Show help
cdist --help

# Show Version
cdist --version

7. ENVIRONMENT

TMPDIR, TEMP, TMP: Setup the base directory for the temporary directory. See http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/tempfile.html for more information. This is rather useful, if the standard directory used does not allow executables.

8. EXIT STATUS

The following exit values shall be returned:

0: Successful completion
1: One or more host configurations failed

9. SEE ALSO

cdist(7)
cdist-reference(7)