A simple cross-platform orchestration and configuration management tool.
The main goal for Zap is to a simple mechanism for managing groups of computers with varying configurations and needs. Zap accomplishes this with "tasks" which can be composed into "plans" or run standalone. These tasks can be collections of scripts or a statically linked binaries, which will be pushed to the target machine(s) and executed.
Zap borrows ideas from Puppet Bolt. but leaves some of the Puppet-based legacy from Bolt behind.
Zap is still very early in its development, but if you would like to give it a
try you can install it via Rust’s cargo command: cargo install zap-cli.
cargo install zap-cli
mkdir my-zap-project
cd my-zap-project
wget https://github.com/rtyler/zap/archive/v0.1.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v0.1.1.tar.gz zap-0.1.1/tasks -C tasks --strip=1
cat > hello.zplan <<EOF
task 'tasks/echo.ztask' {
msg = 'Show them my medal Kif'
}
EOFYou will also need to create an inventory file.
groups: []
targets:
- name: alpha
uri: 192.168.1.1
config:
ssh:
user: root
password: root
config:
transport: sshOnce this has been set up, you can run:
zap plan hello.zplan -t alpha --dry-run❯ zap task tasks/echo.ztask -p msg="Hello World" -t zap-freebsd
Running task with: TaskOpts { task: "tasks/echo.ztask", parameter: ["msg=Hello World"], targets: "zap-freebsd" }
Hello World❯ zap plan ./examples/basic.zplan -t zap-freebsd
Running plan with: PlanOpts { plan: "./examples/basic.zplan", targets: "zap-freebsd" }
Hello from the wonderful world of zplans!
This is niceA task is a simple container of some form of execution. Typically this will be a wrapped shell/ruby/python script which does some specific piece of functionality. Tasks may also take parameters, which allow for some pluggability of new values.
Tasks have some default parameters that should not be overridden in new task definitions.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
|
A relative or absolute path to a file that the task provides. If the file exists, then the task will be skipped. |
|
A script snippet which can determine whether the task should execute. A non-zero exit status causes the task to execute. |
task Echo {
parameters {
msg {
required = true
help = 'String to echo back to the client'
type = string
}
}
script {
inline = 'echo {{msg}}'
}
}A plan is a collection of tasks which can be applied to a target or targets. Tasks are referenced with the parameters that should be passed into them, and will be executed in the order that they are defined.
task 'tasks/echo' {
msg = 'Hello from the wonderful world of zplans!'
}
task 'tasks/echo' {
msg = 'This is nice'
}Zap comes with a number of tasks that are built into zap itself. These can be
referenced in the task declarations in plans via the zap:// URL.
The sh task will execute the given script via /bin/sh on the target.
task 'zap://sh' {
script = '''
pwd
echo ${SHELL}
'''
}| Name | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
|
yes |
A shell script |
|
no |
When this file is present indicates that the script should not be re-run |
|
no |
When this script returns zero exit status, the script should not be re-run |