Managing Systemd with Converge

February 06, 2017 // Rebecca Skinner // Converge

Converge 0.6.0 adds support for the systemd.unit.state resource, which will allow you to control systemd services from converge. In this article, we’ll talk about what capabilities have been added to converge for controlling systemd processes.

Extending Converge

January 05, 2017 // Rebecca Skinner

In this article on extending Converge, we’ll walk through the process of developing a brand new Converge resource from scratch. We’ll go into detail on the resource authors’ API and building a resource that’s safe and usable. This article was generated from a literate program, you can download the original orgmode document if you want to build the examples yourself.

Update: 2017-01-06

This article was updated on 2017-01-06. The How Resource Work section has been updated to use the updated Resource Authors API.

Introducing Converge

November 23, 2016 // Steven Borrelli // Converge

We’re delighted to introduce our newest project, Converge. Converge is a configuration management tool that makes it easy to configure servers, desktops, and Raspberry Pi devices.

Converge manages apt and rpm packages, files, directories, docker images and containers, and the Linux LVM subsystem. The CLI, modules, and API server are all bundled in a single 11Mb binary file, making it easy to deploy and run.

Converge is powered by a sophisticated graph execution engine that automatically creates dependencies and runs tasks in parallel. Internally, the desired state of a system is represented as a directed graph.