plugemin 0.1.1

A template as a service utility...you know, for DevOps

plugemin is a simple utility which uses the amazing jinja2 templating engine and structured data such as XML, JSON or CSV to plug values into templates many times. Think of a form letter, but endlessly useful. With this you can render plain text, HTML, XML, JSON or even Python or C. Anything is possible as long as it is plain text (UTF is supported) in the end.

plugemin was initially designed to template commands which were to be sent over SSH to target systems.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

You will need the following software installed:

• Python >= 2.7

• jinja2

• lxml

lxml is the only one which needs a compiler to install. If this is an issue, I would recomend the great Anaconda Python Distribution which includes all the prerequisites installed by default.

Installing

You can install the latest stable version with the following command:

$ pip install plugemin

or for the latest development version, you can use the following command:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/ilovetux/plugemin.git

Running the tests

In order to run the tests, you will need to clone the repository and kick off the tests with a single command. All of that can be done with the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/ilovetux/plugemin
$ cd plugemin
$ python setup.py nosetests

That’s it, the tests should pass, if they don’t please open an issue and be sure to include:

• The commands you ran to get your results

• The versions of Python, lxml and jinja2 you have installed

• What Operating system

• Any details which would cause your setup to be considered non-standard such as running an obscure version of Linux

Basic Usage

Plugemin will look for templates in a series of locations and take a structured data format as input. It will render the template with each piece of data.

Example

in C:\plugemin\templates\backup-delete.j2:

cp {{src}} {{dst}}
rm {{src}}

in C:\tmp\files.csv:

src,dst
/var/log/*,/tmp/.
/usr/var/log/*,/tmp/.
/var/www/*,/tmp/.

Then you can use the following command:

C:\> plugemin -t backup-delete.j2 -d C:\plugemin\files.csv
cp /var/log/* /tmp/.
rm /var/log/*
cp /usr/var/log/* /tmp/.
rm /usr/var/log/*
cp /var/www/* /tmp/.
rm /var/www/*

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.rst for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

• iLoveTux

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL Version 3 or later, please see the LICENSE file for details

Acknowledgments

• Hat tip to anyone who’s code was used (Jinja2, lxml and Python)

• Brian Kearney and James Brennan for the inspiration to build this utility

• Anyone listed in the contributors file

• Everyone who helps us by submitting issues and pull requests