CHAKE-SHELL(7)

💖 CHAKE-SHELL 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the chake-shell era — this is page 7 of the Miscellaneous Information Manual and honestly? it's a whole vibe. it's a config manager that configures chake nodes, but with shell. yes, literally just shell. iconic behavior fr fr. 🐚✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

chake-shell — configure chake nodes with shell 💅

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this configuration manager is basically a simpler wrapper for running a list of shell commands on the nodes. that's it. that's the whole thing. no cap, it is not trying to be complicated, it's just out here executing your commands and looking cute doing it. 🎀

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🎀 CONFIGURATION 🎀

the shell configuration manager needs one key called shell, and the value has to be a list of strings — each string being one of the commands to run on the node when converging. no more, no less, one key, that's the assignment. 📝

not me putting a random string where a list should go... do NOT do that bestie, the value has to be a list, okay? 😭

here's the moment you've been waiting for, the actual example:

host1.mycompany.com:
  shell:
    - echo "HELLO WORLD"

and that's it. that's the whole config. echo "HELLO WORLD" and you're slaying. she's lowkey beautiful in her simplicity. 🦋

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🧚 BOOTSTRAPPING 🧚

very little bootstrapping is required for this configuration manager, and that's on purpose! the hope is that every node you could possibly want to manage with it already has a POSIX shell as /bin/sh, so like... nothing much to set up. we're blessed. 🙏✨

during bootstrapping, only the node hostname will be set, and it gets set according to your chake configuration. that's the only thing that happens. periodt. 👑

if your node doesn't have a POSIX shell at /bin/sh, that's an iykyk situation, but this page is only telling you what it's telling you — no extra claims from me, bestie. 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• chake(1) — go read it, it's the main character of this whole saga 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, you ate it, you read it, you're a shell-configuring legend now. go forth and echo things on your nodes. 🌟

sign-off time, cuties: this manual page is CHAKE-SHELL(7), from the Miscellaneous Information Manual, dated August 2026. stamp it, file it, obsessed. 🎀💖✨