Re: [O] Org Converge: Configuration management with Org Babel

[Grant Rettke]

Hi Waldemar,

Would this be used in parallel with org-mode? Would it replace it or
complement it?

I'm not very familiar with what you are trying to replace or augment.

Kind regards,

gcr
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On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Waldemar Quevedo
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Org mode users,
>
> I've had the idea for some time of using Org babel functionality
> as a method to provide configuration management
> features and the result is the following:
>
> https://github.com/wallyqs/org-converge
>
> Note that this uses the Ruby implementation of the Org mode parser
> that I've been maintaining to interop with some useful gems from Ruby, like
> rake and foreman.
>
> The idea here is to a able to use Org Babel not only
> for reproducible research, but also for reproducible runs entirely.
> This way a local development environment could be considered to be
> a run where the processes run in parallel, or in the case
> of the configuration of a server, we rely on the tangling
> syntax from Org Babel as well defined idempotency checks
> to make sure that the configuration from a server converges.
>
> In case you have some feedback, please let me know!
> Feel free to create any issues in the tracker in case
> you think that the idea has potential :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Waldemar
>