Slippers

Slippers is a server bootstrapping tool written in Python. It’s similar to tools like Chef or Puppet, but its focus is on ease and speed of configuration. You write your bootstrapping files in JSON or YAML and can distribute them with your project.

Note

Please be aware that Slippers is currently in its 0.1 release. This project practices Documentation Driven Development. The project will be stable and production ready when it reaches 1.0.0. Checkout the What’s been implemented? section for more details.

Introduction

Slippers was started because tools like Chef or Puppet, while versatile, are complicated and difficult to learn for the average Python developer. Slippers intends to be the virtualenv for virtual machines.

Features

Here is a list of planned features:

• JSON or YAML configuration files
• Installable via pip
• Fabric integration
• Vagrant integration
• Support for Django
• Support for virtualenv
• Support for git
• Support for Mercurial
• Support for apt-get
• Support for compilation from source

Contents

• What’s been implemented
• Usage
  • Setup
  • Packages
  • Configuration files
  • Main.json
• API
  • main.json
  • Package files
  • Slippers module
• Contributing
  • Authors
  • License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page