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On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Bhuvan Arumugam <bhuvan at apache.org> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Doug Hellmann <
> doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Bhuvan Arumugam <bhuvan at apache.org>wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Sergey Skripnick <
>>> sskripnick at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I appreciate that we want to fix the ssh client. I'm not certain that
>>>>> writing our own is the best >answer.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was supposed to fix oslo.processutils.ssh with this class, but it may
>>>> be fixed without it, not big deal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Fabric is too much for just command execution on remote server. Spur
>>>> seems like
>>>> good choice for this.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> Where are we doing those sorts of operations?
>>
>
> 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.
>

Are we using ssh to run commands anywhere else in OpenStack? Maybe in one
of the orchestration layers like heat or trove?

Doug



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