Using TinyCM

TinyCM doesn’t run as a deamon but as a single command that verifies/applies the manifest once.

Command line options

$ tinycm [options] path-to-manifest

--apply	Change the computer configuration instead of just verifying
--hostname	Don’t use the current computer fqdn but another string
--modulepath	Specify another directory to look for .mod.yml files and template files.
--verbose	Change the loglevel to info
--debug	Change the loglevel to debug

The path-to-manifest can be a local path can be a path to a local file or an http url.

If you don’t specify the modulepath then it will be calculated from the manifest path. On local paths it will be the same directory as the configuration manifest. If the manifest is on an url then the path will be the same directory as the manifest and then the rest of the url will be appended to it (the hostname and the querystring).

The modulepath and the path-to-manifest don’t have to be on the same protocol. you can use local modules with a remote manifest or remote modules with a local manifest.