pets | A configuration management system for Pets , not Cattle

pets is a Go library. pets has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

The idea behind Pets is that Configuration Management of individual hosts shouldn’t be harder than administering the system by hand. Other configuration management tools typically focus on usage scenarios involving complex relationships between multiple, fairly homogeneous systems: for example, setting up a bunch of application servers behind a load-balancer, or configuring a database and its replicas. For that you need a templating language, some way to store and share information about the various systems, and a way to either push the changes to all hosts or pull them from a central location. All that complexity can discourage from using a configuration management tool to begin with: why bother with Chef syntax and ERB templates if you just need to edit a few files?. Pets instead focuses on the individual, local machine. No need to ssh anywhere, no puppetmaster to configure, nada. It works by reading your regular, static configuration files (say muttrc) with added pets modelines, inspired by the concept of vim modelines. Pets can copy your configuration files to the right place, fix permissions, install packages, and run commands upon file update.