re: virtualenv -- can't you just call fab or the script via your
virtualenv's python binary? ie: ``~/.virtualenvs/myproject/bin/python
~/.virtualenvs/myproject/bin/fab -H host1,host2 getdb``?
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com>wrote:
> Hi Philipp,
>
> I must say I'm using Fabric for much more than just a ssh abstraction.
> I'm using it to deploy projects and I'd like to skip the command line part
> and fully automate it. I'm also using the template engine.
> However, I'm not willing to do an external call to a system command since
> I'm in a virtual env which would make things too tricky.
>
> Regards,
> Xavier.
>
> Le 18 sept. 2010 à 16:18, Philipp Keller a écrit :
>
> Hi Xavier
>
> I tried the same thing, that's what I came up with:
>
> env.host_string = servername
> run('cat /proc/loadavg | cut -d' ' -f1')
>
> I asked that on stackoverflow if there is a better way for that:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3567066/fabric-call-run-for-an-explicit-host
>
> I didn't get any answers - I probably should have asked here.
> From looking at the code it looks as if fabric isn't designed as "ssh
> abstraction" - but should be primarily used from the command line.
> e.g. run() is closely coupled to the rest of fabrics infrastructure (such
> as env, or writing to stdout, or asking for password).
>
> I personally hoped I was finding an "ssh abstraction" because paramiko is
> too low level, but fabric doesn't seem to allow me to just use run or
> sudowithout using also the rest of the environment - is that correct, Jeff?
>
> I am somehow puzzled because on fabrics homepage I read:
>
> In addition to use via the fab fool, Fabric’s components may be imported
>> into other Python code, providing a Pythonic interface to the SSH protocol
>> suite at a higher level than that provided by e.g. Paramiko (which Fabric
>> itself leverages.)
>
>
> Greets
> Philipp
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have already read the documentation but might have missed
>> or didn't understood something.
>>
>> Currently, my biggest issue is:
>>
>> >>> from fabric.api import env, run
>> >>> env.user = 'root'
>> >>> env.hosts = ['whatever',]
>> >>> env.host = 'whatever'
>> >>> def test():
>> ... run('uname -a')
>> ...
>> >>> test()
>> No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string for connection:
>>
>> If I put that in a fabfile.py and run a fab test it will work.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xavier.
>>
>> Le 18 sept. 2010 à 14:58, Jeff Forcier a écrit :
>>
>> > Hi Xavier,
>> >
>> > Make sure you read the documentation[1]; it does need more work
>> > regarding library use, but you can still get very far just by reading
>> > the usage docs, especially the one on execution.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> > Jeff
>> >
>> > [1] http://docs.fabfile.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Xavier Ordoquy <xordo...@linovia.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I have been using Fabric for some time now and I am very happy with the
>> help it provides for system administration.
>> >> However, I'd like to go one step furtherand couple fabric together with
>> a python script - ie calling fabric from my own scripts.
>> >> I'm getting a real hard time understanding how I can start tasks from
>> my python script, esp settings things such as hosts, users and so on.
>> >>
>> >> I didn't manage to find something on the net about using fabric from
>> within python.
>> >> Maybe someone has a link, a blog entry or whatever to help me getting
>> started ?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Xavier.
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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Jeff Forcier
>> > Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer
>> > http://bitprophet.org
>>
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