Provision-Unix

Provision::Unix is a suite of provisioning scripts used to create, modify
and destroy accounts on Unix systems. The types of accounts that can be
provisioned are organized by class with each class including a standard
set of operations. All classes support a minimum of the following 
operations: create and destroy.  Additional common operations in many
classes are: modify, suspend, restore.

Classes are organized into general modules which contain the dispatch 
logic for sub-methods within that class. The structure looks
like this:

 Provision::Unix
   |- DNS
   |   |- BIND
   |   |- NicTool
   |   |- tinydns
   |- User
   |   |- Darwin
   |   |- FreeBSD
   |   |- Linux
   |- VirtualOS
   |   |- FreeBSD
   |   |   |- Ezjail
   |   |   |- Jail
   |   |- Linux
   |   |   |- OpenVZ
   |   |   |- Virtuozzo
   |   |   |- Xen
   |   |- Xen
   |- Web
   |   |- Apache
   |   |- lighttpd

There is not yet an API for Provision::Unix but a command line interface exists. In the bin directory are prov_* applications (prov_dns, prov_user, prov_mail, etc) that can be used to provision accounts and services. 

The general classes are dispatchers that send your provision requests to the appropriate modules, based on the environment and settings in provision.conf. Provision::Unix::VirtualOS contains all the general methods for performing operations on virtual private servers. Subclasses contain implementation specific information such as how to provision an VPS for xen, openvz, or freebsd jails. New subclasses can be easily added by following the example of a completed one.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Provision::Unix

You can also look for information at:

    RT, CPAN's request tracker
        http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Provision-Unix

    AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
        http://annocpan.org/dist/Provision-Unix

    CPAN Ratings
        http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Provision-Unix

    Search CPAN
        http://search.cpan.org/dist/Provision-Unix


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008 Matt Simerson

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.