mgmt

I'd love to give someone at Verda a demo of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ to show them how they could actually do fast provisioning and automation. Seeing Ansible+Kubernetes+K* stuff in their jobs offering does not inspire confidence that they're innovating in building their core infra. You can't out-compete AWS or even the smaller clouds there. If you want to see a different perspective, lmk.

Here's a different kind of workflow engine with a proper DSL. It turns out config management is the same problem as workflow engines, if you use my modern definition of config management. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Have a look at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and tell me what you think. We don't have enough docs though. Tough being an open source thing that you want to keep open.

I'm the main author of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and we use a lot of graphs. (Mostly DAG's actually.) In particular we'll have a DAG and then add nodes and edges to it, and then remove some and so on... It would be nice to visualize these changes. We currently use graphviz, but it's not "stable" so a diagram jumps around a lot when we look at snapshot to snapshot... If (1) we could guarantee some kind of stability and (2) if we could even animate the transitions, that would be incredibly useful for visualization. If this is possible, I'd love to hear about it!

This article misses the point. The future will be self-hosted (or local community hosted) when automation technology actually matures and shows some real innovations. That's one reason we're building https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

It's very interesting (I applaud this) that one of the main goals seems to be to make it more approachable as compared to TLA+, but then they go in write it in C# which I consider to be an incredibly unapproachable community and language. I'm not trying to draw the ire of the Microsoft fan boys, and there are certainly smart people working on that, but it's just not going to happen for most people. Had this been in golang, or maybe java, I'm sure many more hands would be digging in! Having said that, I hope this helps bring correctness and validation more into the mainstream. I've been casually following the project for a while now. My long-term goal is to integrate model validation into https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ so if this is an area of interest to you, please let me know!

Location: Canada Remote: Yes, I've been 100% remote since before COVID. Technologies: golang and https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Résumé/CV: https://purpleidea.com/ Email: https://purpleidea.com/contact/ Only looking for work involving mgmt config automation projects right now. If you're interested, feel free to let me know. I can build you something very impressive.

Using the `mcl` DSL language in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ It's awesome. But I'm biased because I designed it. You can't build anything, but you can build many things much more easily. Particularly distributed systems.

So we have two concurrency "engines" in mgmt: (1) One for running the function graph, and (2) one for running the resource graph. (1) https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/master/lang/funcs/da... (2) https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/master/engine/graph TBQH, I think I'm decent at concurrency, but I never considered it my passion or expertise and while both of those _work_ I do know that I have some concurrency bugs hanging out, and I'd love real professional help here. In the odd chance you'd be willing to hack on things with me, I'd be particularly elated. There might be a possible symbiosis! I'm @purpleidea on Mastodon, Matrix (where we have an #mgmtconfig room) and a few other places in case you'd like to chat more!

Nice! I do a lot of concurrency work with DAG's in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and I would love to swap out some of those concurrency runners with a lib if possible. I was wondering if this could be it... Any thoughts in that direction, please let me know!

This feels like a specialized version of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ but Microsoft only.

Miaplaza | Infrastructure/Automation Engineer | REMOTE (Most countries, work time must overlap with North America) | Full-Time Mini hiring video about the job: https://mastodon.social/@purpleidea/113075362647034036 I'm officially hiring! Want to work for me improving mgmt config and using it to do infrastructure automation? https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ I'm leading a small infra team at a really neat company. We're rolling out mgmt config, and we want your help! You'll be writing mcl, golang, and also helping out with other company infra tasks. Fully remote. More details here: https://miaplaza.recruitee.com/o/infrastructure Feel free to ping me if you have questions!