Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

augeas
Stable release
1.14.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 15 July 2023; 16 months ago (15 July 2023)
Repository
Written inC,[2] shell script,[2] LaTeX,[2] Cascading Style Sheets,[2] Automake,[2] Autoconf,[2] Vimscript,[2] Perl[2] Edit this on Wikidata
Operating systemUnix-like
Size1.8MB[3]
TypeConfiguration management
LicenseGNU LGPL 2.1 or later
Websiteaugeas.net

Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project[4]) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XPath syntax, using a bidirectional transformation. Writing such lenses extends the amount of files Augeas can parse.

Bindings

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Augeas has bindings for Python,[5] Ruby,[6] OCaml,[7] Perl,[8] Haskell,[9] Java,[10] PHP,[11] and Tcl.[12]

Programs using augeas

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  • Certbot, ACME client
  • Puppet provides an Augeas module[13] which makes use of the Ruby bindings
  • SaltStack provides an Augeas module[14] which makes use of the python bindings

References

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  1. ^ "Release 1.14.1". 15 July 2023. Retrieved 28 July 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "The Augeas Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page". Open Hub. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Augeas — Download". augeas.net.
  4. ^ "Augeas Frequently Asked Questions". Augeas. Retrieved February 7, 2011.
  5. ^ "The python-augeas Open Source Project on Open Hub". www.ohloh.net. Archived from the original on 2012-10-15. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  6. ^ "Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement - FedoraProject". git.fedorahosted.org.
  7. ^ "OCaml bindings for Augeas". people.redhat.com.
  8. ^ "Config::Augeas - Edit configuration files through Augeas C library - metacpan.org". metacpan.org.
  9. ^ "augeas: A Haskell FFI wrapper for the Augeas API". hackage.haskell.org.
  10. ^ "Infrastructure/Fedorahosted-retirement - FedoraProject". git.fedorahosted.org.
  11. ^ "PECL :: Package :: augeas". pecl.php.net.
  12. ^ "Tcl bindings for Augeas". GitHub.
  13. ^ "Resource tips and examples: Augeas — Documentation — Puppet". projects.puppetlabs.com. Archived from the original on 2011-03-11. Retrieved 2011-02-07.
  14. ^ "salt.modules.augeas_cfg". docs.saltstack.com.
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