Docs: http://mold.rtfd.org/

It really grows on you.

mold is yet another configuration management tool.

Mold has 3 goals:

1. use standards (like stdin, stdout, stderr and JSON)

2. allow functions to be written in the language best suited to the problem

3. stay out of the way (e.g. provide all raw logging information)

Install it (the virtual environment isn't necessary, but is nice):

virtualenv moldtest
source moldtest/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade Twisted Jinja2
git clone https://github.com/moldit/mold.git mold.git
cd mold.git
python setup.py install

Create a minion:

mold create-minion /tmp/minion

Inspect the state of a file:

echo '{"path": "/tmp/minion"}' | /tmp/minion/resources/file inspect

And see the state of the resource:

{"kind": "file", "group": "wheel", "ctime": 1351889197, "exists": true, "perms": "0557", "filetype": "dir", "mtime": 1351889197, "owner": "moldit", "path": "/tmp/minion", "atime": 1351896286}

After getting the code (see above):

trial mold

Install sphinx:

pip install --upgrade sphinx

Build the docs

cd docs && make html

The Mold Standard is separately maintained in the moldspec project.