# NAME propellor - property-based host configuration management in haskell # SYNOPSIS propellor [options] # DESCRIPTION `propellor` is a property-based host configuration management program written and configured in haskell. # MODES OF OPERATION * propellor The first time you run `propellor`, without any options, it will set up a `~/.propellor/` repository. Edit `~/.propellor/config.hs` to configure it. Once propellor is configured, running it without any options will take action as needed to satisfy the configured properties of the local host. If there's a central git repository, it will first fetch from the repository, check the gpg signature and merge, and rebuild propellor, so that any configuration changes will immediately take effect. If propellor is run by a non-root user without any options, this is the same as running propellor --spin with the hostname of the local host. * propellor --spin targethost [targethost ...] [--via relayhost] Causes propellor to automatically install itself on the specified target host, or if it's already installed there, push any updates. Propellor is then run on the target host, to satisfy its configured properties. A signed git commit is made by --spin, so that any changes you have made get propigated to the target host. Multiple target hosts can be specified; propellor will run on each of them in sequence. When run with --via, propellor sshes to the relay host and runs `propellor --spin hostname` from there. This can be useful when propellor is installing itself, since most of the data transfer is done between relay host and target host. Note that propellor uses ssh agent forwarding to make this work, and the relay host sees any privdata belonging to the target host. Propellor configuration typically uses the FQDN of hosts. The hostname given to --spin can be a short name, which is then looked up in the DNS to find the FQDN. * propellor --add-key keyid Adds a gpg key, which is used to encrypt the privdata. If the gpg secret key is present, git is configured to sign commits using this key. Propellor requires signed commits when pulling from a central git repository. * propellor --list-fields Lists all privdata fields that are used by your propellor configuration. The first 2 columns are the field name and context, and are followed by a list of the hosts that use that privdata value. * propellor --set field context Sets a field of privdata. The content is read in from stdin. * propellor --unset field context Removes a value from the privdata store. * propellor --dump field context Outputs the privdata value to stdout. * propellor --edit field context Opens $EDITOR on the privdata value. * propellor --merge Combine multiple --spin commits into a single, more useful commit. When using propellor, you may find yourself repeatedly running `propellor --spin` until you get things working the way you like. This results in a lot of git commits being made, with incremental changes. To clean that up to a single commit, use `propellor --merge`. A normal interactive git commit will then be made, consisting of all changes that have been previously committed by --spin, since the last time a normal git commit was made. (This will result in a trapezoid pattern in gitk.) * propellor --check If propellor is able to run, this simply exists successfully. * propellor hostname When run with a hostname and no other options, propellor will provision the local host with the configuration of that hostname. This is useful when the local host doesn't yet have its hostname set correctly. # ENVIRONMENT Set `PROPELLOR_DEBUG=1` to make propellor output each command it runs and other debugging information. # GIT CONFIGURATION `git config propellor.debug 1` will configure propellor to output debugging information. The usual git configuration controls which centralized repository (if any) propellor pushes and pulls from. Additionally, the url of a remote named "deploy", if it exists in your ~/.propellor/ repository, is used as the origin url for the other repositories. # SH AUTHOR Joey Hess Warning: Automatically converted into a man page by mdwn2man. Edit with care.