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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Doug Hellmann
<doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com>wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Bhuvan Arumugam <bhuvan at apache.org>wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Sergey Skripnick <
>> sskripnick at mirantis.com> wrote:
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>>>  I appreciate that we want to fix the ssh client. I'm not certain that
>>>> writing our own is the best >answer.
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>>> I was supposed to fix oslo.processutils.ssh with this class, but it may
>>> be fixed without it, not big deal.
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>>>> In his comments on your pull request, the paramiko author recommended
>>>> looking at Fabric. I know that >Fabric has a long history in production.
>>>> Does it provide the required features?
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>>> Fabric is too much for just command execution on remote server. Spur
>>> seems like
>>> good choice for this.
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>> I'd go with Fabric. It support several remote server operations, file
>> upload/download among them. We could just import the methods we are
>> interested. It in turn use paramiko supporting most of ssh client options.
>> If we begin using fabric for file upload/download, it'll open door for more
>> remote server operations. Bringing in fabric as part of oslo will be cool.
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> Where are we doing those sorts of operations?
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Currently, we don't upload/download files to remote server through ssh/scp.
We do execute commands, pipe multiple commands in few tempest when ssh is
enabled. With oslo/fabric, we may develop a common ground to deal with
remote servers, be it executing commands or dealing with files.
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Regards,
Bhuvan Arumugam
www.livecipher.com
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