~~META: date created = 2009-11-27 17:36~~
====== ReLAX ======

Thanks to [[http://www.synapseninferno.org/|Wolfgang Stief]] and [[http://blogs.sun.com/constantin|Constantin Gonzalez]], I got hold on one of the proceedings of the [[http://www.linux-kongress.org/2009/|Linux Kongress]] and [[http://www.osdevcon.org/2009/|OpenSolaris Developer Conference]].
In this book, I found amoung other, also very interesting, articles one about [[http://lax.sourceforge.net/|LAX]] by Thomas Groß.

LAX has some very interesiting concepts, but, unfortunately, it doesn't fit my needs.
So I decided to take some of the concepts of LAX and build my own sysadmin-automation-framework.

In lack of a good project name, I named it "ReLAX".

To get startet, here is a small comparison of the concepts of LAX and ReLAX:

  * The most fascinating idea is the building of an API with shell-scripts. I adopted this from LAX.
  * LAX uses an LDAP server to store the configuration. I decided to allow any server which can be read by ''curl'', ''wget'' or ''cat''. This allows http, https, ftp, ftps and file URLs.

That's it for now, stay tuned...

I started documenting the API, so you might want to have a look there..

{{tag>api framework project project_relax scripting shell sysadmin}}