This is better, yes?
Comtrya is a tool to help provision a fresh OS with the packages and configuration (dotfiles) you need to become productive again.
I'm a serial OS installer, I wipe the OS on my machines every, approx, 30 days. I've primarily relied on SaltStack to automate this, but I've grown frustrated with the mismatch between configuration management and personal provisioning.
I've also tried Ansible, Chef, Puppet, mgmt, and probably anything else you're about to suggest; they all have a flaw that makes it too cumbersome to adopt for the trivial use-case.
No binaries are distributed yet, please install and build with Cargo.
shell
cargo install comtrya
comtrya --modules-directory ./dotfiles
You should take a look at the issues page (on GitLab, not GitHub) to see what's available to contribute. Below is a short list of the major features that are upcoming.
We're using petgraph to build out the graph, but we're not travesing it in a way that will allow us to concurrently execute manifests at the same depth. This is something I wish to sort out pretty soon.
The example ./dotfiles directory contains a comtrya.yaml file that should / will allow you to configure default providers, add contexts / variables, and specify the manifests directory. This doesn't exist yet :)
Currently, we execute arbitrary packager install commands. The provider spec should be enriched to support:
Currently, files were prototyped pretty quickly. There's the ability to render and create files on a disk; we need to provide context providers to enrich the templating.
Also, symlinking only works if there's no rendering to take place; but there's no flag to encourage / enforce this.