Project/Tool to deploy and maintain Edge Servers (VMs) remotely
I'm looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes. The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can. Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands. (Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha... It's not the case... I'm not on the dark side of the force.) I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel. I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project. Could anyone give-me some-tip? Thanks in advance. -- Douglas Fernando Fischer Engº de Controle e Automação
On Sep 4, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes.
The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can.
Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands. (Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha... It's not the case... I'm not on the dark side of the force.)
I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.
I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project.
Could anyone give-me some-tip?
You may want to look at the NLNOG Ring both for examples, but also for how to have interesting views from around the world, similar to RIPE Atlas. - Jared
Saltstack / Chef may be the solution you need. If you're already using ansible, how about ansible-pull? On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 7:03 PM Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:
On Sep 4, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes.
The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can.
Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands. (Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha... It's not the case... I'm not on the dark side of the force.)
I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.
I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project.
Could anyone give-me some-tip?
You may want to look at the NLNOG Ring both for examples, but also for how to have interesting views from around the world, similar to RIPE Atlas.
- Jared
On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 07:52:07AM -0300, Douglas Fischer wrote:
I'm looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes.
The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can.
Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands. (Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha... It's not the case... I'm not on the dark side of the force.)
I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.
I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project.
Could anyone give-me some-tip?
Saltstack and Puppet typically fill this niche, although some folks have used Chef in a similar fashion. I usually advocate Saltstack for this. Broad offering with CM, orchestration, C&C control bus, and more available. Ansible scales (in fleet management as well as codebase complexity) quite poorly, so don't waste time on that. Contact me off-list if you want to chat more about this. -J
Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas@gmail.com> writes:
I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.
If your familiar with ansible: ansible-pull? "pulls playbooks from a VCS repo and executes them for the local host" https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/cli/ansible-pull.html Other tools like e.g. puppet use an agent that querys a central server on a regluar basis. Jens -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Delbrueckstr. 41 | 12051 Berlin, Germany | +49-151-18721264 | | http://blog.quux.de | jabber: jenslink@quux.de | --------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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