Augeas (software)

Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project ) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XPath syntax, using a bidirectional transformation. Writing such lenses extends the amount of files Augeas can parse.

Bindings
Augeas has bindings for Python, Ruby, OCaml, Perl, Haskell, Java, PHP, and Tcl.

Programs using augeas

 * Certbot, ACME client
 * Puppet provides an Augeas module which makes use of the Ruby bindings
 * SaltStack provides an Augeas module which makes use of the python bindings