Excellent! Thanks. On May 6, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Ken Barber wrote:
> Okay - so I've extracted some of the code and done at least done the > scaffolding for this new shell tool here: > > https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-shell > > But its very much pre-release at this point (so its not on the forge > and doesn't have a formal release number) - so buyer beware! > > I've added the most basic of tests, but it needs lots more love. > Patches accepted - especially rspec test related ones :-). > > ken. > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Michael Stahnke <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Ken Barber <[email protected]> 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? >> We are in master. >> >>> 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. >>> >>> ken. >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
