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标题：muPuppet: A Declarative Subset of the Puppet Configuration Language
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作者：Weili Fu ; Roly Perera ; Paul Anderson 等
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2017
卷号：74
页码：12:1-12:27
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2017.12
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：Puppet is a popular declarative framework for specifying and managing complex system configurations. The Puppet framework includes a domain-specific language with several advanced features inspired by object-oriented programming, including user-defined resource types, 'classes' with a form of inheritance, and dependency management. Like most real-world languages, the language has evolved in an ad hoc fashion, resulting in a design with numerous features, some of which are complex, hard to understand, and difficult to use correctly. We present an operational semantics for muPuppet, a representative subset of the Puppet language that covers the distinctive features of Puppet, while excluding features that are either deprecated or work-in-progress. Formalising the semantics sheds light on difficult parts of the language, identifies opportunities for future improvements, and provides a foundation for future analysis or debugging techniques, such as static typechecking or provenance tracking. Our semantics leads straightforwardly to a reference implementation in Haskell. We also discuss some of Puppet's idiosyncrasies, particularly its handling of classes and scope, and present an initial corpus of test cases supported by our formal semantics.
关键词：configuration languages; Puppet; operational semantics