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+producer
+========
+
+  Software provisioning and configuration management tool, based on a
+DSL to write "recipes".
+
+
+Getting started
+---------------
+
+### Installation (requires ruby and rubygems)
+
+    $ gem install producer-core
+
+
+### Simple recipe
+
+  Recipes are composed by tasks and a task includes actions. Here we
+use the `echo` action, which output the given string to standard
+output. All the power of the Ruby language is available.
+
+```ruby
+hello_message = 'hello world!'
+
+task :hello_world do
+  echo hello_message
+  echo hello_message.upcase
+end
+```
+
+    $ producer simple_recipe.rb
+    hello world!
+    HELLO WORLD!
+
+
+### Shell command execution on remote host
+
+  The `sh` action will execute a shell command given as a string on
+the targeted remote host. The remote host can be specified with the
+CLI option `-t`.
+
+```ruby
+task :show_zsh_pkg do
+  sh 'pkg info | grep zsh'
+end
+```
+
+    $ producer -t localhost show_zsh_pkg.rb
+    zsh-5.0.7                      The Z shell
+
+  When execution fails, recipe processing is stopped and the action
+which triggered the failed execution is the last one to be applied.
+
+```ruby
+task :sh_fail do
+  sh 'false'
+  echo 'end of recipe'
+end
+```
+
+    $ producer -t localhost sh_fail.rb
+    RemoteCommandExecutionError: false
+    $
+
+  Only the first action is applied.
+
+
+### Task conditions
+
+  A task can be bound to a condition: when the condition fails actions
+are skipped, otherwise actions are applied as usual.
+
+  This condition can be a simple ruby expression :
+
+```ruby
+task :condition_pass do
+  condition { true }
+  echo 'will output'
+end
+
+task :condition_fail do
+  condition { false }
+  echo 'will NOT output'
+end
+```
+
+#### Built-in tests
+
+  Specific test keywords are also available in the condition block
+context, `producer-core` ships with a few common tests,
+`producer-stdlib` provides more, and custom tests can be defined.
+
+  Here we use the `sh` condition keyword which will pass when the
+execution of the given shell command succeed, and fail when the
+execution fails.
+
+```ruby
+task :condition_sh_pass do
+  condition { sh 'true' }
+  echo 'will output'
+end
+
+task :condition_sh_fail do
+  condition { sh 'false' }
+  cho 'will NOT output'
+end
+```
+
+
+### Nested tasks
+
+  Complex tasks can be split into nested subtasks. Conditions have
+the same effect on tasks they have on actions, when the condition
+fails, subtasks of the current task are skipped.
+
+```ruby
+task :main_task do
+  condition { true }
+  task(:foo_subtask) { echo 'do foo' }
+  task(:bar_subtask) { echo 'do bar' }
+  task(:baz_subtask) do
+    condition { false }
+    task(:baz_subtask_subtask) { echo 'do baz' }
+  end
+end
+```
+    $ producer nested_tasks.rb
+    do foo
+    do bar
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+FIXME
+
+
+Actions
+-------
+
+See:
+https://github.com/tjouan/producer-core/tree/master/features/actions
+
+
+Tests
+-----
+
+See:
+https://github.com/tjouan/producer-core/tree/master/features/tests
+
+
+Templates
+---------
+
+FIXME
+
+
+Macros
+------
+
+FIXME
+
+
+Test macros
+-----------
+
+FIXME
+
+
+Macro composition
+-----------------
+
+FIXME
+
+
+Background
+----------
+
+  producer started as a collection of heterogeneous scripts (Ruby,
+POSIX shell, Perl…) in the late '90s. I wanted to experiment with the
+design and usage of Domain Specific Languages in Ruby, and refactor
+all my scripts as "recipes" in a common language.
+
+
+Similar or related code and tools
+---------------------------------
+
+### Ruby DSL
+
+* https://github.com/sprinkle-tool/sprinkle
+* http://www.capistranorb.com/
+* http://babushka.me/ (with BDD features, no network support?)
+
+### Ruby DSL, shell script transpilation
+
+* http://nadarei.co/mina/ (Rake based DSL, requires and uses bash)
+
+### Ruby-like DSL
+
+* http://puppetlabs.com/ (Ruby supported on >= 2.6.x)
+
+### Agents, daemons
+
+* https://github.com/saltstack/salt (Python, YAML)
+* http://www.cobblerd.org/ (Python, many features)
+* https://www.getchef.com/chef/
+
+### SSH
+
+* https://github.com/ansible/ansible (Python, YAML)
+* http://docs.fabfile.org/ (Python)
+* https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine (Python DSL, uses Fabric)
+* https://github.com/kenn/sunzi (Ruby, provisioning, shell based)
+* http://solutious.com/projects/rudy/ (Ruby, provisioning)
+
+### Ruby SSH related code
+
+* https://github.com/leehambley/sshkit
+* https://github.com/gammons/screwcap
+* https://github.com/delano/rye/
+* https://github.com/jheiss/sshwrap
+
+### BDD
+
+* https://github.com/hedgehog/cuken (Cucumber)
+* https://github.com/serverspec/serverspec (RSpec, Net::SSH)
+  https://github.com/serverspec/specinfra
+* https://github.com/auxesis/cucumber-nagios (Cucumber, Net::SSH,
+  Webrat)
+* http://larsyencken.github.io/marelle/ (Prolog, babushka inspired)