On Apr 19, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Ken Barber wrote: >> An interactive puppet shell: >> https://github.com/lak/puppet/tree/prototype/master/puppet_shell >> >> The best tool I ever had for managing ldap directories was a simple, stupid >> tool I wrote called ldapsh: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ldapsh/ . It >> wasn't much of a shell (e.g., no autocomplete), but it was still 100x better >> than the tools at the time. I've always wanted something similar in Puppet, >> so I figured I'd give it a shot. >> >> The basic idea is that you'd treat the resource types as the top-level >> directories, and you could cd around, look at resources, edit them, clone >> them, or remove them. The reality isn't that nice, because not all resource >> types play well with this -- e.g., you can't list file instances at all. >> It's also just really obvious how much work it is to make an ok shell, and >> you'd still just rather have bash or whatever. >> >> I think a FUSE filesystem would be fantastic for this, especially if it >> supported connecting to other hosts, or even parallelizing across >> mcollective, but this is more interesting experiment to make a point than >> anything I'd recommend actually supporting. > > This tool seems interesting - are we able to plugin-sync faces > properly yet? Would be good to get this out into a module. At the very > least it would be awesome for training purposes to teach people the > power of the RAL, but beyond that it starts to get into the discussion > we were having with Paul Anderson about his lcfg tooling that drives > his components. I'm fascinated by the idea that not only should Puppet > be useful for setting policy, but perhaps for providing cross-platform > real time control on the CLI and this certainly asserts that some > more.
I'd be happy to see someone pull this into a module. -- Luke Kanies | http://about.me/lak | http://puppetlabs.com/ | +1-615-594-8199 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
