On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 15:40 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 15:38 -0400, Karl MacMillan wrote: > > > Speaking of that, I was wondering what you guys think is the most > > interesting thing about func. So far I've seen basically 3 interesting > > bits (there is likely more that I am missing): > > > > 1) Managing multiple systems at once w/ the possibility of globbing (and > > grouping later I guess). > > > > 2) Simplified scripting of commands for running on many systems. > > > > 3) An xml-rpc infrastructure with simplified auth to make it all work. > > a simple ssl cert infrastructure for getting them signed and propagated > among systems, by default. This infrastructure is potentially usable by: > - yum > - puppet > - nagios > - cacti > If you plan to use this cert infrastructure more broadly then my concerns about the weaknesses grow quite a bit. > > > > To me, 1 and 2 are the most compelling aspects and 3 seems to overlap > > quite a bit with ssh. > > except ssh involves shells, which is not what we want to start > programming from. > But ssh would just be the transport / authentication mechanism that could be hidden. It could immediately exec a bit of python code that has the good parts of your current system. Karl
