cdist vs whiptail
A side-by-side look at cdist and whiptail. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
cdist
System & Hardware
cdist is an open source configuration management tool written in Python. It allows system administrators to define the configuration of servers and deploy it to multiple machines in parallel. cdist works by running small scripts called 'manifests' on remote hosts.
configuration-managementautomationpython
whiptail
Development
Whiptail is a lightweight user interface shell for shell scripts. It allows creating dialog boxes, menus, progress bars and more to interact with users through a text terminal.
shelldialoguser-interface
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