watchmaker

Applied Configuration Management

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Overview

Watchmaker is intended to help provision a system from its initial installation to its final configuration. It was inspired by a desire to eliminate static system images with embedded configuration settings (e.g. gold disks) and the pain associated with maintaining them.

Watchmaker works as a sort of task runner. It consists of “managers” and “workers”. A manager implements common methods for multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, etc). A worker exposes functionality to a user that helps bootstrap and configure the system. Managers are primarily internal constructs; workers expose configuration artifacts to users. Watchmaker then uses a common configuration file to determine what workers to execute on each platform.

Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Common Scan Findings
• Frequently Asked Questions
• API Reference
• Contributing
• Changelog

Supported Operating Systems

• Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL/CentOS/etc)

• Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL/CentOS/etc)

• Windows Server 2019

• Windows Server 2016

• Windows Server 2012 R2

• Windows Server 2008 R2

• Windows 10

• Windows 8.1

Supported Python Versions

• Python 3.4 and later

• Python 2.6 and later

NOTE: See relevant FAQ for details on running watchmaker in Python 2.6.