Project/Tool to deploy and maintain Edge Servers (VMs) remotely

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I’m looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes.

The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can.

Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands.

(Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie
hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha…
It’s not the case… I’m not on the dark side of the force.)

I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible.
But I thought that I’m probably reinventing part of the wheel.

I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project.

Could anyone give-me some-tip?

Thanks in advance.

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You may want to look at the NLNOG Ring both for examples, but also for how to have interesting views from around the world, similar to RIPE Atlas.

- Jared

3

Saltstack / Chef may be the solution you need.

If you’re already using ansible, how about ansible-pull?

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Saltstack and Puppet typically fill this niche, although some folks have
used Chef in a similar fashion.

I usually advocate Saltstack for this. Broad offering with CM,
orchestration, C&C control bus, and more available. Ansible scales (in
fleet management as well as codebase complexity) quite poorly, so don't
waste time on that.

Contact me off-list if you want to chat more about this.

-J

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Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas@gmail.com> writes:

I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible. But I
thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.

If your familiar with ansible: ansible-pull?

"pulls playbooks from a VCS repo and executes them for the local host"

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/cli/ansible-pull.html

Other tools like e.g. puppet use an agent that querys a central server
on a regluar basis.

Jens