Augeas (software)

Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

augeas
Stable release	1.14.1[1]  / 15 July 2023; 2 years ago (15 July 2023)
Repository	github.com/hercules-team/augeas
Written in	C,[2] shell script,[2] LaTeX,[2] Cascading Style Sheets,[2] Automake,[2] Autoconf,[2] Vimscript,[2] Perl[2]
Operating system	Unix-like
Size	1.8MB[3]
Type	Configuration management
License	GNU LGPL 2.1 or later
Website	augeas.net

Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project^[4]) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XPath syntax, using a bidirectional transformation. Writing such lenses extends the amount of files Augeas can parse.

Bindings

Augeas has bindings for Python,^[5] Ruby,^[6] OCaml,^[7] Perl,^[8] Haskell,^[9] Java,^[10] PHP,^[11] and Tcl.^[12]

Programs using augeas

• Certbot, ACME client
• Puppet provides an Augeas module^[13] which makes use of the Ruby bindings
• SaltStack provides an Augeas module^[14] which makes use of the python bindings