Pan Language

The pan language is used within the ​Quattor toolkit to define the desired configuration for one or more machines. The language is primarily a declarative language where elements in a hierarchical tree are set to particular values. The pan syntax human-friendly and fairly simple, yet allows system administrators to simultaneously set configuration values, define an overall configuration schema, and validate the final configuration against the schema.

This wiki is intended as a users' guide for the pan language and is intended to be more accessible than a more formal specification. The formal specification is available from the quattor website, although it has not (yet) been updated for the latest release of the compiler.