# purpleidea/mgmt

Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management!

Repository: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mgmt
Homepage: https://mgmtconfig.com/
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: golang, go, configuration-management, config-management, devops, etcd, distributed-systems, graph-theory, choreography
Last push: 2026-08-24T00:42:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 66, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3995, "days_push": 10, "days_rel": 71, "gap_med": 118.5, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4308, forks 353 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:41.733188+00:00)

## What it is
mgmt is a next-generation distributed, event-driven configuration management tool written in Go, with its own reactive language (mcl) for modeling infrastructure as code. It runs as a decentralized cluster of agents that continuously converge systems to a desired state in real time with closed-loop feedback.

## Use cases
- manage server configuration as code
- keep systems continuously in a desired state in real time
- schedule resources across a cluster of hosts
- react to changing conditions like time-based file permissions
- replace puppet or ansible with a real-time automation tool
- run decentralized config agents across a network

## When to choose
- you want real-time, event-driven convergence instead of periodic runs
- you need distributed scheduling and cluster-wide resource constraints
- you prefer a reactive declarative language for infrastructure modeling

## When to avoid
- you need a mature ecosystem with extensive modules and community support
- your team already relies on established tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- you only need simple one-shot provisioning without continuous monitoring

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: configuration-management, workflow-automation, cli
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, microservices, self-hosted
- platform: go, cli, cross-platform
- tags: config-management, mcl, event-driven, real-time, infrastructure-as-code, ansible-alternative, puppet-alternative, etcd, cluster-scheduling, devops, automation, linux

## Member repositories
- purpleidea/mgmt (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.733188+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:21:48.676667+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:41.733188+00:00, sha dcc6dd09d78b)
  - homepage: https://mgmtconfig.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:56.996173+00:00, sha ed8293f2bfc4)
  - site_page: https://mgmtconfig.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:56.998814+00:00, sha 46ff2f037a43)
  - site_page: https://mgmtconfig.com/about (fetched 2026-08-29T09:10:57.000949+00:00, sha c97e5f1c814d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.