[ckan-dev] [okfn-help] Fwd: [nzpug] Fabric, Cuisine & Watchdog

[David Read]

Thanks for the forwarding this presentation about
fabric/cuisine/watchdog Tim. Here are my thoughts on our use for CKAN
servers.

We've been using fabric, but frequently want to work manually ssh'd to
the server, where fab commands are less accessible. So we're moving
towards having the logic in server-side shell scripts and using fabric
as a thin wrapper.

Cuisine looks good for simplifying some bash scripting, although it
seems to be tied to fabric.

@Nils do you want to evaluate if watchdog is useful to us beyond our
existing munin, nagios and other custom stuff you use?

David

On 19 May 2011 22:55, Tim McNamara <paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz> wrote:
> I think this will be of interest to the dev folk
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Tim McNamara" <mcnamara.tim at gmail.com>
> Date: 20/05/2011 9:38 AM
> Subject: Fwd: [nzpug] Fabric, Cuisine & Watchdog
> To: "Tim McNamara" <inbox at timmcnamara.co.nz>
>
>
> (Please excuse brevity, sent from my phone.)
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Guy K. Kloss" <guy.kloss at aut.ac.nz>
> Date: 19/05/2011 3:44 PM
> Subject: [nzpug] Fabric, Cuisine & Watchdog
> To: <nzpug at googlegroups.com>
>
> Came up in a discussion yesterday after the Auckland meeting. Here's a
> reference to an *excellent* presentation/introduction on how to use Fabric
> to
> automatically install, deploy, configure remote hosts.
>
> The slides also include Cuisine, which is a helper library (one .py file) to
> ease many of the common tasks in Fabric, as well as Watchdog, to keep an eye
> on what/how your machine is doing, and to configure notifications in case of
> trouble. (Also has got some nice features to preserve sanity in case e. g. a
> ping is slow, so that it should only ring alarm bells if that happens
> several
> times.)
>
> http://putake.aut.ac.nz/wiki/Root/PutakeInstall
>
>  * presentation:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/ffunction/fabric-cuisine-and-watchdog-for-server-
> administration-in-python
>
>  * Fabric:
>   http://fabfile.org (also in Debian/Ubuntu repositories)
>
>  * Cuisine:
>   http://github.com/sebastien/cuisine (just use the cuisine.py file)
>
> And that host that I've installed with it (with instructions/sample):
>
> http://putake.aut.ac.nz/wiki/Root/PutakeInstall
>
> Guy
>
> --
> Guy K. Kloss
> School of Computing + Mathematical Sciences
> Auckland University of Technology
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> phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 5032
> eMail: Guy.Kloss at aut.ac.nz
>
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