Hi,
On Monday 05 January 2009 05:29:55 pm Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Casey Dahlin posted an idea on my blog that I thought was a good one...
>
> What if we had an ORM for systems? When he first posted it, my
> initial thought was "Func already does this", though there are some
> subtle changes:
>
> His example was more complicated, but what if we could do something like:
>
> Client("*.example.org").filter_by(arch==i386).services.start("httpd") ?
Some keywords we may have here :
filter,
all,
exclude,
order_by,
reverse
>
> (I'll admit the critera syntax could be much better)
>
> The only new thing here is the concept of filtering. The goal here
> would be that instead of getting back the inventory for each system, we
> instead find a way to send the conditional "run this if" critera down to
> each node.
Yeah great idea,if someone wants todo that now he has to make lots of queries
to minions, with that new filtrering ORM stuff we may also reduce the
traffic.
>
> This may be better served as a library a level up from Func, so we could
> also work on having more "objecty" returns for it if we wanted to do
> this -- ultimately this might mean it's our higher level Func API after
> all.
>
> It does seem to want or require something like a facter, but I need to
> evaluate whether that would meet the needs for what I want to do -- I
> suspect it's not sufficiently Pythonic and we may want to do something
> different.
>
> Anyway, doing something higher level and primarily using Func for
> (secure, audited) transport may not be such a bad idea.
>
> Here was the post: http://www.michaeldehaan.net/?p=821
>
> Either way, I think the above could be done by outsourcing the decision
> making to the nodes, so we don't have to keep an updated database of all
> the nodes properties.
>
> --Michael
>
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It would be great to work on sth like that if had time of course, maybe on
next GSOC :)
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