Book description
Orchestrate change across server clusters in near realtime with MCollective, the framework that works in concert with Puppet, Chef, and other configuration management tools. Ideal for system administrators and operations or DevOps engineers at any level, this hands-on guide teaches you how to build and test a real installation of MCollective servers and clients in your environment.
Table of contents
- Preface
- I. Getting Started
- 2. Installation
- 3. Command-Line Client
- 4. Web Clients
- 5. Agent and Client Plugins
- 6. Maintenance
- 7. Configuration Management
- 8. Controlling Puppet Agent
- 9. Waking the Chef
- II. Complex Installations
- 11. Middleware Security
- 12. Creating Collectives
- 13. MCollective Security
- 14. Challenges of Worldwide Parallelism
- III. Custom Plugins
- 16. Extending the Agent
- 17. Creating a Client Application
- 18. Processing Multiple Actions
- 19. Making a Standalone Client
- 20. Creating Other Plugins
- 21. Processing Registration Data
- 22. Collecting Responses
- 23. Running MCollective Without Root
- 24. Downloading the Code
- IV. Putting It All Together
- 26. Grow Your Deployment
- Take the Strings Now
- A. Tips and Tools
- B. OS Specifics
- Index
Product information
- Title: Learning MCollective
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781491945674
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