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

Thu May 19 21:55:16 UTC 2011

I think this will be of interest to the dev folk
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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.)
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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<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

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Guy K. Kloss
School of Computing + Mathematical Sciences
Auckland University of Technology
Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142
phone: +64 9 921 9999 ext. 5032
eMail: Guy.Kloss at aut.ac.nz
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