github.com/vektra/tachyon@v0.0.0-20150921164542-0da4f3861aef/README.md (about) 1 ## tachyon 2 3 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/vektra/tachyon.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/vektra/tachyon) 4 5 Tachyon is an experimental configuration management tool inspired by ansible implemented in golang. 6 7 #### Ok.. why? 8 9 I find the best way to learn something is to try to implement it. 10 I'm curious about ansible's model for configuration management and 11 as a fun weekend project began I this project. 12 13 #### Is this usable? 14 15 If you need to run some yaml that executes commands via shell/command, sure! 16 Otherwise no. I'll probably continue to play with it, adding more functionality 17 and fleshing out some ideas I've got. 18 19 #### Oohh what ideas? 20 21 * Exploit golang's single binary module to bootstrap machines and run plays remotely. 22 * Use golang's concurrency to make management of large scale changes easy. 23 * Use github.com/evanphx/ssh to do integrated ssh 24 * Allow creation of modules via templated tasks 25 26 #### Is that a lisp directory I see? 27 28 It is! ansible uses python as it's implementation lang and thus also uses it as 29 it's runtime eval language. Obviously I can't do that and I don't wish to runtime 30 eval any golang code. Thus I have opted to embed a simple lisp intepreter 31 (taken and modified from [https://github.com/janne/go-lisp](https://github.com/janne/go-lisp)) 32 to run code. For instance: 33 34 ```yaml 35 name: Tell everyone things are great 36 action: shell echo wooooo! 37 when: $(== everything "awesome") 38 ``` 39 40 #### What should I do with this? 41 42 Whatever you want. Play around, tell me what you think about it. Send PRs for crazy ass 43 features!