octopus
octopus provide a web interface that you can run commands on lots of server parallel
For security issues ,most ssh server block root login , so octopus login server as un_privileged user,then "su -" to root, then run privileged commands.
Just try it
if you just want to try it and don't want to install it.
move dep-octopus.tar.bz2 to user's home directory and decompress it:
$ mv dep-octopus.tar.bz2 ~
$ tar -xjvf dep-octopus.tar.bz2
then go to octopus's base directory,init the database and run it:
$ python createdb.py
$ python run.py
open your browser, access http://localhost:5000
default user is "admin"
default password is "octopus"
enjoy it!
clean up:
rm -rf ~/.local
Deployment
if you want to deploy it on production environment with wsgi server such as uwsgi, you need to install memcached
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