LXCraft

A Declarative Configuration Build Tool for Linux Systems

A simple declarative configuration build tool for Linux systems.

• 🐍 Pure Python declarative code
  • No need to learn a new DSL/programming language
  • Leverage IDE features like inline documentation, code completion, linting, etc.
• 📏 Ephemeral target system
  • No need to worry about maintaing the system state
• Simpler than Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, SaltStack, etc. due to the above

How to use

from lxcraft import Plan
from lxcraft.debian import AptPackages

Plan([
    AptPackages(["nginx"])
]).execute()

How to develop

Requirements

• Python 3.10+ is required.
• Linux or WSL.

In order to develop you must use Linux or WSL with docker.

python develop/docker-bash.py
invoke setup
invoke test