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


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2020 07:03:23 -0400



On Sep 4, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas () gmail com> wrote:

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?


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


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