+1 for doing this with Jenkins. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Alexander Fortin < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 21.07.2015, at 17:09, Kaushal Shriyan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Are there Pyhton Fabric UI application which will invoke the fabric cli > commands at the backend. This is for people who are not tech savvy and > hands on using cli commands on the linux console. > > > > Any help will be highly appreciable? > > > Hi Kaushal, > > I’m not aware of any tool that does exactly what you ask for, but in our > team we have set up a few parametrized jobs in Jenkins that check out > Fabric code and execute some of those tasks for us. It’s far from being > ideal, but it gives use a few benefits, including > - possibility to add ACLs and decide who can run what > - execution of tasks from a production server close to the affected hosts > (instead of from an operator workstation) > - possibility to easily run them from a smartphone + VPN connection > - availability of logs (with colors! :D) for later inspection > > The only tricky part is to set up the ‘Jenkins jobs’ parameters and > translate them in Fabric host/roles list and tasks/parameters; again, far > from ideal, but of the dozens of tasks we have, only a small subset > requires any GUI-interface, so we’re ok with that so far. > > HTH > > -- > Alexander Fortin > > > _______________________________________________ > Fab-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user >
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