14.11. cdist-type__cdist(7)¶

14.11.1. NAME¶

cdist-type__cdist - Manage cdist installations

14.11.2. DESCRIPTION¶

This cdist type allows you to easily setup cdist on another box, to allow the other box to configure systems.

This type is NOT required by target hosts. It is only helpful to build FROM which you configure other hosts.

This type will use git to clone

14.11.3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS¶

14.11.4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS¶

username: Select the user to create for the cdist installation. Defaults to "cdist".
source: Select the source from which to clone cdist from. Defaults to "git://github.com/ungleich/cdist.git".
branch: Select the branch to checkout from. Defaults to "master".

14.11.5. EXAMPLES¶

# Install cdist for user cdist in her home as subfolder cdist
__cdist /home/cdist/cdist

# Use alternative source
__cdist --source "git://github.com/ungleich/cdist" /home/cdist/cdist

14.11.6. AUTHORS¶

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

14.11.7. COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2013 Nico Schottelius. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.