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# Smith
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> An agent
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Smith is, in many ways, a clean sheet implementation of [cram](https://git.arrdem.com/arrdem/cram).
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Cram as a tool has been quite successful at implementing an agentless (get it) masterless configuration.
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Clone a git repo and apply the config.
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The miss of Cram is that it's really only designed to install static files, and really only to a homedir.
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Installing packages is frankly a dirty hack.
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In contrast to Cram's static configurations and mostly static actions, Smith has much more in common with Ansible, Puppet or Saltstack.
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Like these full up configuration management systems, Smith features an inventory system, a package manager abstraction, templating features and - unlike these other systems - a core action model and changelog.
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Also like those other systems, Smith uses a "real" configuration language for defining "modules".
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