# Comtrya
> This is better, yes?
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## Warning
This tool is ridiculously early in its development. I'm building out features as I migrate my [dotfiles](https://gitlab.com/rawkode/rawkode) over.
Those dotfiles can be used as a "reference" for migrating your own.
Only for early adopters and masochists.
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## About
Comtrya is a tool to help provision a fresh OS with the packages and configuration (dotfiles) you need to become productive again.
I'm a serial OS installer, I wipe the OS on my machines every, approx, 30 days. I've primarily relied on SaltStack to automate this, but I've grown frustrated with the mismatch between configuration management and personal provisioning.
I've also tried Ansible, Chef, Puppet, mgmt, and probably anything else you're about to suggest; they all have a flaw that makes it too cumbersome to adopt for the trivial use-case.
## Getting Started
No binaries are distributed yet, please install and build with Cargo.
### Prerequisites
- Rust installed
### Installation
```shell
cargo install comtrya
```
## Usage
```shell
comtrya --manifest-directory <manifest-directory> # Directory where manifests are located [default: .]
# OR
comtrya --manifests <manifests> # Run a subset of your manifests, comma separated list
```
## Manifests
A manifest is a collection of packages and files, and this will likely be expanded upon later. A Manifest is a logical grouping of resources that can be applied to your machine, and fetched from remote locations or local.
### Actions
Actions do stuff
#### Packages
Single package:
```yaml
actions:
- action: package.install
name: git
```
Install several packages with the list version:
```yaml
actions:
- action: package.install
list:
- git
- minikube
```
#### Files
Files must be within a `files` directory within each manifest location.
```yaml
actions:
- action: file.copy
from: gitconfig
to: /Users/rawkode/gitconfig
```
### Dependencies
```yaml
depends:
- manifest_name
```
## What's Next?
You should take a look at the issues page (on GitLab, not GitHub) to see what's available to contribute. Below is a short list of the major features that are upcoming.
### Better Output
Currently, Comtrya `println!`'s pretty much everything. We need to use a proper logging library to restrict the scope of the output and should provide a summary output.
```shell
Comtrya finished in 12.3s
Installed Packages: 12
Provisioned Files: 34
```
### Async DAG
We're using [petgraph](https://github.com/petgraph/petgraph) to build out the graph, but we're not travesing it in a way that will allow us to concurrently execute manifests at the same depth. This is something I wish to sort out pretty soon.
### Config
TODO: Allow manifest directory and variables to be configured in a `Comtrya.yaml` file.
### Package Provider Enhancements
Currently, we execute arbitrary `packager install` commands. The provider spec should be enriched to support:
- Already installed lookups
- List refresh
- Upgrades
- Version pinning
- Packager installation
- If Homebrew doesn't exist, offer to install it
- If Nix doesn't exist, offer to install it
- etc
### Files
Currently, files were prototyped pretty quickly. There's the ability to render and create files on a disk; we need to provide context providers to enrich the templating.
Also, symlinking only works if there's no rendering to take place; but there's no flag to encourage / enforce this.
