Reclass
Reclass
http://reclass.pantsfullofunix.net/
hierarchical inventory backend for configuration management systems
reclass is an "external node classifier" (ENC) as can be used with automation tools, such as Puppet, Salt, and Ansible. It is also a stand-alone tool for merging data sources recursively.
The purpose of an ENC is to allow a system administrator to maintain an inventory of nodes to be managed, completely separately from the configuration of the automation tool. Usually, the external node classifier completely replaces the tool-specific inventory (such as site.pp for Puppet, ext_pillar/master_tops for Salt, or /etc/ansible/hosts).
reclass allows you to define your nodes through class inheritance, while always able to override details further up the tree (i.e. in more specific nodes). Think of classes as feature sets, as commonalities between nodes, or as tags. Add to that the ability to nest classes (multiple inheritance is allowed, well- defined, and encouraged), and piece together your infrastructure from smaller bits, eliminating redundancy and exposing all important parameters to a single location, logically organised.
This package provides the reclass CLI and adapters for Salt and Ansible.
Licensing
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Debian: martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org>
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28 October 2014
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License: artistic-2.0
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Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Download | https://github.com/madduck/reclass | |
| Python (Ref) | https://pypi.org/project/reclass | |
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/reclass |
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