OpenCM Alpha6 Released

Jonathan S. Shapiro writes: "The new OpenCM Configuration Management system has just released it's first external alpha (0.1.0alpha6) over at opencm.org -- brought to you by the same folks who are working on the EROS operating system. Being a 0.1 alpha release, it shouldn't be used for prime time development yet, but it's definitely ready for a first look. We've been using it internally for OpenCM development for a while, and we have officially moved EROS development over. It looks like most of what needs to be done toward a first release is cosmetic at this point. Alpha6 has been tested on RedHat 7.3. Porting and cleanup are underway for solaris and (soon) *BSD. People seem to be excited about this -- especially the OpenBSD folks. While you are over at the web site, have a look at the two papers on OpenCM from this year's USENIX and USENIX Security conference."

Comments

Congratulations

[mlinksva]

When the poster announced this project a little over two years ago I asked why in the world spend time developing another configuration management system with many extant, more on the horizon, and so much work left on EROS. I certainly thought OpenCM (then DCMS) would never see the light of day. I was wrong, and glad about it. I'm really looking forward to disconnected operations.

Update: OpenCM port submitted

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

Todd Fries just submitted the patches getting OpenCM to build under OpenBSD. They'll be included in the next alpha.