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I'd love to give someone at Verda a demo of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ to show them how they could actually do fast provisioning and automation. Seeing Ansible+Kubernetes+K* stuff in their jobs offering does not inspire confidence…

comment by purpleidea · 2026-09-22 · in Verda (Finland) raises $189M in Series B

…is the same problem as workflow engines, if you use my modern definition of config management. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2026-05-04 · in DAG Workflow Engine

Have a look at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and tell me what you think. We don't have enough docs though. Tough being an open source thing that you want to keep open.

comment by purpleidea · 2025-12-11 · in The future of Terraform CDK

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2025-11-10 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm the main author of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and we use a lot of graphs. (Mostly DAG's actually.) In particular we'll have a DAG and then add nodes and edges to it, and then remove some and so on... It would be nice to…

comment by purpleidea · 2025-10-26 · in D2: Diagram Scripting Language

…technology actually matures and shows some real innovations. That's one reason we're building https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2025-07-25 · in The future is not self-hosted

…following the project for a while now. My long-term goal is to integrate model validation into https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ so if this is an area of interest to you, please let me know!

comment by purpleidea · 2025-05-31 · in Systems Correctness Practices at Amazon Web Services

Location: Canada Remote: Yes, I've been 100% remote since before COVID. Technologies: golang and https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Résumé/CV: https://purpleidea.com/ Email: https://purpleidea.com/contact/ Only looking for work involving…

comment by purpleidea · 2025-03-04 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

Using the `mcl` DSL language in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ It's awesome. But I'm biased because I designed it. You can't build anything, but you can build many things much more easily. Particularly distributed systems.

comment by purpleidea · 2025-03-04 · in Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?

…in mgmt: (1) One for running the function graph, and (2) one for running the resource graph. (1) https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/master/lang/funcs/da... (2) https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/master/engine/graph TBQH, I think…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-11-25 · in Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go

Nice! I do a lot of concurrency work with DAG's in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and I would love to swap out some of those concurrency runners with a lib if possible. I was wondering if this could be it... Any thoughts in that…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-11-25 · in Show HN: Rill – Composable concurrency toolkit for Go

This feels like a specialized version of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ but Microsoft only.

comment by purpleidea · 2024-10-21 · in Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems

…hiring! Want to work for me improving mgmt config and using it to do infrastructure automation? https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ I'm leading a small infra team at a really neat company. We're rolling out mgmt config, and we want your…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-09-04 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)

…tech stack of VM's. My username at mastodon or twitter has the details, and it's about working with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2024-08-27 · in Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems

…and a plan to be done by then or move on. If you're serious about future infra, then it's all here: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Looking for coding help for some of the harder bits that people might wish to add, and for people to…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-08-27 · in Predicting the Future of Distributed Systems

…something that looks like it's ten years old, use Ansible or Puppet. Disclosure, I'm working on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ so I think I have some reason to comment about this kind of tooling.

comment by purpleidea · 2024-08-03 · in This repo is for the DSC v3 project

…like to see less google control of the project. I'm certainly thankful for golang as it made my https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ project possible! Thanks Russ!

comment by purpleidea · 2024-08-01 · in Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

…, https://github.com/zalando/patroni#patroni-a-template-for-po... https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/tree/0.0.26/etcd (this one shows up on HN quite a bit) https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon#features It's actually one of th

comment by mdaniel · 2024-05-04 · in Ask HN: Are there any open source forks of nomad and consul?

I've looked briefly into this project before. Some ideas are similar to what I'm doing in https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ but the really weird thing is that I have no idea who's behind this language. A person? A company? A small group?…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-03-08 · in The Cell Programming Language

…biased because I'm working on programmatic, real-time modelling of distributed systems with https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2024-03-04 · in Show HN: Workflow orchestrator in Golang

The DAG concurrency stuff feels familiar to what I've been doing with our language, mcl. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Our goal is NOT a general-purpose turing-complete language like this one is, but we do some amazing lock-free, DAG…

comment by purpleidea · 2024-02-29 · in The Claro Programming Language

…Their stock is plummeting. Check online yourself. Disclaimer, I am the author of a similar tool: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2023-12-15 · in Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp

…don't have enough luxury time to be able to do it themselves. Prove me wrong and help patch or fund https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and you'll have an even better replacement for terraform!

comment by purpleidea · 2023-08-11 · in What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers

…don't have enough luxury time to be able to do it themselves. Prove me wrong and help patch or fund https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and you'll have an even better replacement for terraform!

comment by purpleidea · 2023-08-11 · in HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

The Technical Blog of James https://purpleidea.com/blog/ Random tech stuff and of course my work on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by purpleidea · 2023-07-04 · in Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Been grinding on it on the side for some years now. I make $0/month from it. I really believe in the idea, so I'm just trying to get it to MVP so I can really prove what it can do. It's been tough…

comment by purpleidea · 2023-01-30 · in Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

There's https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt , written in Go.

comment by softjobs · 2022-11-01 · in A configuration management system for computers that are pets, not cattle

…so you should only use it in trusted environments (not on publicly accessible networks) for now." https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/faq.md#i... Kind of a non-starter for my use case. I hope they get to a 1.0 release soon.

comment by skyfaller · 2022-05-16 · in Ansible 2.13

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt

comment by yankcrime · 2022-05-16 · in Ansible 2.13

I didn't watch this video, but https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ has a core concept of streams of DAG's since the beginning. I came up with the idea, but if there's a greater commons discussing these kind of algorithms, I'd be interested…

comment by purpleidea · 2022-05-01 · in UIs are streaming DAGs [video]

…A big plus (to me anyway) is that it's not Ruby based, and is instead written in Go. [0] https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt

comment by lapser · 2022-04-11 · in An Open Letter from the CEO of Puppet: Puppet and Perforce

…not in skill then in time and that is where a tool with a larger community can save your ass. [1]: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt

comment by johntdaly · 2022-02-03 · in Why are there no decent Go or Rust alternatives to Ansible?

…time to get practical with the idea and work out these issues I might put it into a Show HN. [0] https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt

comment by aequitas · 2021-09-16 · in Home Assistant – open-source home automation

Yes, have a look at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Not at a 1.0 release yet, but there's enough for you to have fun with. LMK

comment by purpleidea · 2021-08-03 · in Ask HN: Has anyone fully embraced an event-driven architecture?

> I'd be curious what a better alternative looks like. https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ It's just not finished yet. with < 0.01% of the funding kube has, it has many times more design and elegance. Help us out. Have a look and tell me…

comment by purpleidea · 2021-07-22 · in Kubernetes is our generation's Multics

cough how can you leave out https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ =D It's in golang, and is the only reactive DSL.

comment by purpleidea · 2021-06-15 · in Cue, an open-source data validation language

Thanks for looking out for us =D Link for any who's interested: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ I and others have been working quite hard on it, so please come join us =D

comment by purpleidea · 2021-05-20 · in Ansible 4.0

Um, you've seen https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ right ;) Join us!

comment by purpleidea · 2021-05-20 · in Ansible 4.0

There are at least two things that make this project not for me: I don't need more etcd in my life: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/0.0.21/docs/faq.md#w... (and then, as if to drive home my point, they even have a separate FAQ…

comment by mdaniel · 2020-12-09 · in Mgmt: Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management

You should have a look at https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ Disclosure, I'm the main author.

comment by purpleidea · 2020-11-20 · in The golden age of configuration languages

I use the free travis to build https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ It's 100% open source and there's almost no income (some github sponsors) for it. I guess welp we'll have to switch away, or have to constantly send "ask" tickets to get…

comment by purpleidea · 2020-11-02 · in The new pricing model for Travis CI

…Email: https://purpleidea.com/contact/ I'm the one that started https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ I also run a mentoring program that has help aspiring coders to improve their golang skills. You might also know my techni

comment by purpleidea · 2020-10-01 · in Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2020)

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ can dynamically add and remove vcpus to a running vm. Each change has sub-second precision, and a second https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ running in the vm can detect this and charge workloads…

comment by purpleidea · 2020-07-18 · in Ask HN: Dynamic memory/CPU provisioning for VMs?

…with some solution to YAML templating (jsonnet et al) and some shell glue. I am keeping an eye on https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt which is a newer contender which many interesting features but lacks more complex examples. Others like…

comment by phaer · 2020-03-14 · in Ask HN: Which configuration management software would/should you use in 2020?

I'm working on something called mgmt: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ It runs as a distributed system, and is reactive to events, both in the engine and in the language (a FRP DSL) which allows you to build really fast, cool,…

comment by purpleidea · 2019-11-15 · in The architecture of declarative configuration management

I'm working on a new tool called mgmt: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ While I think it's a good fit for the general automation problems we face today, on of the reasons I'd say that it's more difficult to find solutions geared to an…

comment by purpleidea · 2019-08-12 · in Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?

…from scratch like mgmt[1] are on the right track, but probably won't gain enough traction. [1] https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/language...

comment by raziel2p · 2018-06-21 · in YAML: probably not so great after all (2017)

…ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxObmwZDyrI There is also some long form documentation in the project: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/blob/master/docs/language...

comment by purpleidea · 2018-02-23 · in Introducing the Mgmt Configuration Language

Shameless plug: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt But I do think it's worth looking at! Full disclosure, I'm the main developer.

comment by purpleidea · 2016-08-05 · in Ask HN: What is the most underrated GitHub repo you found lately?

Repository: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

comment by brudgers · 2016-03-30 · in Show HN: Next generation configuration mgmt