Bois
Bois is an opinionated system provisioning tool for your personal machines.
I call my own machines jokingly my bois, hence the name.
It enables you to manage configuration files while being straight forward to use, making it easy to share them with other devices. This means re-usability of your configuration via templating and optional deployment on a per-host basis.
This effectively means that bois can be used for both system configuration (as root) and as a manager for your dotfiles.
On top of handling system config files, it’s also able to manage your installed packages and enabled services.
You could say that it aims to strike a balance between Chezmoi and Ansible/Saltstack, but on-host and for your bois.
Short Overview of the Most Prominent Features
- System configuration file management
- Allow editing of deployed files
- Diffing/Merging of deployed files vs. changed files in bois directory.
- Safety first. Don’t overwrite changes without a prompt.
- System package management (via package managers)
- System service management (e.g. Systemd).
- Dis-/enable services based on deployed files.
- Cleanup
- Remove deployed files/directories if removed from bois.
- Uninstall packages if removed from bois.
- Disable services if removed from bois.
- Also designed for usage as user dotfile manager.