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## Introduction
cdist configures your system. It is similar to
[cfengine](http://www.cfengine.org/) and [puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/).
It is inspired by both of those tools:
[[!meta title="cdist - configuration management]]
* Try to redo the great power you get
* But leave out the bugs you also got
And cdist is UNIX:
## Introduction
It's designed to
reuse existing tools,
it does not require high level scripting language interpreters
and it is equipped with manpages.
cdist configures your system and is similar to
other configuration management systems like
[cfengine](http://www.cfengine.org/),
[bcfg2](http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2),
[chef](http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/)
and [puppet](http://www.puppetlabs.com/), but
it ticks differently:
* cdist sticks completly to the KISS (keep it simple and stupid) paradigma
* cdist's core is very small (currently around 400 lines of code)
* There is only one type to extend cdist called ***type***.
*
* cdist is UNIX
* It reuses existing tools like cat, find, mv, ...
* cdist's documentation is bundled as manpages
* cdist is written in POSIX shell
* No special requirements like high level interpreters needed on server or target
### Architecture
* KISS (keep it simple and stupid)
* Allow very easy extension of cdist (creating own types for instance)
* Push (server pushes configuration) and Pull (client retrieves config) supported
* User defines configuration in shell scripts
* Push mode (server pushes configuration)
* Pull mode (client triggers configuration)
* User defines configuration in shell scripts (called ***manifests***)
* Cdist generates internal configuration (cconfig style) and afterwards applies configuration
## Requirements

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