# 🕊️ peace – zero stress automation
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`peace` is a framework to build user friendly software automation.
See:
* [peace.mk](https://peace.mk) for the project vision.
* [Background](https://peace.mk/book/background.html) for the motivation to create this framework.
* [Operations UX](https://azriel.im/ops_ux/) for a book about the dimensions considered during `peace`'s design and development.
## Guiding Principles
* A joy to use.
* Ergonomic API and guidance to do the right thing.
* Understandable output.
## Features
| 🟢 | Works well |
| 🟡 | Partial support |
| ⚫ | Planned |
| 🔵 | Compatible by design |
| 🟣 | Works, "fun idea" |
* 🟢 Define items to manage with automation
* 🟢 Define dependencies between items
* 🟢 Discover current and desired states
* 🟢 Show diff: what would change
* 🟢 Store and recall parameters across commands
* 🟢 Concurrent task execution via [`fn_graph`]
* 🟢 Skip unnecessary work
* 🟢 Idempotence: Multiple executions
* 🟢 Show state differences
* 🟢 Namespaced profile directories
* 🟢 Resource clean up
* 🟢 Understandable progress
* 🟡 Feature-gated incremental functionality
* 🟡 Off-the-shelf support for common items
* 🟡 Dry run
* 🔵 Understandable error reporting via [`miette`]
* 🔵 Actionable error messages
* 🟣 WASM support
* ⚫ Tutorial for writing a software lifecycle management tool
* ⚫ Built-in application execution methods -- CLI, web service
* ⚫ `peace` binary for configuration based workflows
* ⚫ Web based UI
* ⚫ Agent mode to run `peace` on servers (Web API invocation)
Further ideas:
* Back up current state
* Restore previous state
* Telemetry logging for monitoring
* Metrics collection for analysis
## Examples
Examples are run using `--package` instead of `--example`, as each example is organized as its own crate.
```bash
cargo run --package $example_name --all-features
# e.g.
cargo build --package download --all-features
cargo run -q --package download --all-features -- init https://ifconfig.me ip.json
for cmd in status desired diff ensure diff clean diff
do
printf "=== ${cmd} ===\n"
cargo run -q --package download --all-features -- $cmd
printf '\n'
done
# Look at metadata that Peace has saved
find .peace -type f -exec bash -c 'echo \# {}; cat {}; echo' \;
# Clean up the metadata directory
rm -rf .peace
```
### WASM
The `download` example can be built as a web assembly application using [`wasm-pack`]:
```bash
cd examples/download
wasm-pack build --target web
```
In the `examples/download` directory, start an [HTTP server], and open <http://localhost:8000/>:
```bash
python3 -m http.server 8000 # or
simple-http-server --nocache --port 8000 -i
```
## License
Licensed under either of
* Apache License, Version 2.0, ([LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) or https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
* MIT license ([LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) or https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
### Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
[#42]: https://github.com/azriel91/peace/issues/42
[`fn_graph`]: https://github.com/azriel91/fn_graph
[`miette`]: https://github.com/zkat/miette
[`wasm-pack`]: https://rustwasm.github.io/
[HTTP server]: https://crates.io/crates/simple-http-server