Hey Peter, Nice work! Thanks for sharing. This is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping the Fabric v2 rewrite would enable. (And not just because I made the decision to drop v1's somewhat bug-prone built-in directory sync functionality!)
We don't really have any sort of project showcase, but I'll certainly add this to my bookmarks in case I ever set one up. Best, Jeff On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 5:40 PM Peter Sagerson <psag...@ignorare.net> wrote: > I actually wrote this project about a year and a half ago, but I never > mentioned it anywhere. It's mostly for me, but it has comprehensive > documentation and test coverage, so it's suitable for general use, should > anyone be interested. > > I have a few personal servers to manage and I've long wished for some > tooling that's less cumbersome than Ansible, et al. The overwhelming > majority of what I need is just copying files and for the rest I'm happy to > write a bit of code. Fabsync > is the result. > > https://pypi.org/project/fabsync/ > > This is a library, not a framework. It uses a Fabric connection to copy a > source directory to a remote destination, like rsync. Additional > configuration can be sprinkled throughout the source tree in TOML files, > for instance to set user, group and permissions. Render functions can be > registered to preprocess selected files in any way you see fit (using a > template engine, for example). There are also some quality-of-life > features, such as capturing diffs and using tags to select subsets of files > for syncing. > > I don't have any particular plans for the project beyond its present > state, but feel free to reach out with thoughts and feedback. > > https://sr.ht/~psagers/fabsync/ > > Thanks, > Peter > -- Jeff Forcier Linux sysadmin; Python engineer https://bitprophet.org
