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

[Jens Link <lists () quux de>]

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
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