Poni is a simple system configuration management tool implemented in Python.

Installing and operating Poni requires:

• Python 2.6 (or greater)
• setuptools installed
• Internet connection for downloading the dependency Python packages from PyPI

Using Amazon EC2 requires setting the following environment variables:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<your aws access key>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<your aws secret access key>

Additionally, running the included automated tests requires:

• nose

Building HTML files from the included ReST documentation requires:

• docutils
• Sphinx

NOTE: during installation the following packages and their dependencies are automatically installed from PyPI:

• path.py (directory and file management)
• Cheetah (text-based templating language)
• Argh (command-line argument parsing)

Installing the following Python libraries will add optional functionality:

• Paramiko (Remote node control using SSH)
• GitPython (Version controlling the repository with Git)
• Genshi (XML-based templating)
• Boto (Amazon EC2 virtual machine provisioning)
• pyvsphere (VMWare virtual machine provisioning)
• libvirt-python (libvirt virtual machine provisioning)
• PyDNS (libvirt provisioning dependency)

Poni can be installed from Python Package Index (PyPI) by running pip install poni or easy_install poni.

1. Unpack the poni-v.vv.tar.gz package
2. cd poni-v.vv/
3. python setup.py install

• You should be able to import poni from Python
• The poni command-line tool is installed (to a platform-specific location), try running poni -h for help
• Running automated tests: cd poni-v.vv/ && nosetests

Please refer to the documentation under the doc/ directory (published at http://melor.github.com/poni/) and to the example systems under the examples/ directory.

Thanks for the contributions!

• Oskari Saarenmaa (features)
• Santeri Paavolainen (fixes)
• Lakshmi Vyas (new features for AWS-EC2 support)
• Lauri Heiskanen (enabling pseudo-tty)
• F-Secure Corporation (major improvements, VMWare vSphere and libvirt support)

This package is licensed under the open-source "Apache License, Version 2.0".

The full license text is available in the file LICENSE and at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt

Note: poni versions older than 0.6 were licensed under the MIT license.