Rick van Rein <r...@openfortress.nl> writes: > Hi Russ (and remctl users),
> You are probably aware of overviewing management tools like Ansible, > Puppet and NixOps. I wonder how remctl relates to those. Are you (or > other users) aware of anyone combining them? They're a little orthogonal, although maybe more to Puppet than to Ansible. remctl is, formally speaking, an authenticated RPC system like gRPC or the like, just a very, very simple one that doesn't require that you learn protobufs, language bindings, or all the other machinery of a full RPC system. (But which, in turn, doesn't have schemas, typing, or structured arguments.) You can use such a thing as part of a configuration management system, or the config management system can roll its own (which is kind of what Puppet did, although not in a straightforward way that exposes the underlying RPC system). You could use remctl as a transport for a config management system, but the normal nature of config management is such that you probably want the full power of executing arbitrary commands, which is somewhat the opposite of what remctl was designed to do. (IIRC, Ansible mostly uses ssh to push stuff around.) -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
