I would also be interested if this is the case (or direction).

 

A few years ago when I was looking for a library providing an OS agnostic
shell wrapper in Python, I ended up using Fabric for Linux/Unix and writing
my own wrapper for PowerShell on Windows.  Now that the open-source version
of PowerShell (pwsh) has been out for a while and working on UX variants, I
recently had a go at using it.  But the required OS libraries for security
models (NTLM/Kerberos/etc) on the different Linux variants. too convoluted
for an generic wrapper.

 

My use-case needed to talk to all servers in any customer's datacenter,
without provisioning agents or changing any configurations. I needed to use
what was already there, which meant PowerShell (and not SSH) on Windows.
FWIW, my purpose was to automate discovery of software application
dependencies as input into application/service modeling and monitoring
downstream. If it's helpful, you can see the PowerShell wrapper I created in
the Open Content Platform project (github.com/opencontentplatform/ocp).

 

What I found was that OpenSSH was pretty close to being uniform across the
Windows and UX variants; heck, it's even available now in the Features list
in recent Server or workstation builds.  But pwsh, which requires OpenSSH at
least currently. not close enough for my liking.

 

 

From: Fab-user <[email protected]> On
Behalf Of Paulo Roberto de Souza Carvalho
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2020 2:57 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Does Fabric work on Windows?

 

                I ask because on all the pages I entered I only found
examples of Unix / Linux commands.

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