Archive | mcollective

11 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

Authorization plugins for MCollective SimpleRPC

Till now The Marionette Collective has relied on your middleware to provide all authorization and authentication for requests. You’re able to restrict certain middleware users from certain agents, but nothing more fine grained.
In many cases you want to provide much finer grain control over who can do what, some cases could be:

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06 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

Meet the marionette

Another cool project I keep an eye on for some weeks is “the marionette collective“, aka mcollective. This project is leaded & develloped by R.I. Pienaar, one of the most active people in the puppet world too.
Mcollective is an framework for distributed sysadmin. It relies on a messaging framework and has many features included : [...]

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03 April 2010 ~ Comments Off

MCollective Release 0.4.4

I just released version 0.4.4 of The Marionette Collective. This release is primarily a bug fix release addressing issues with log files and general code cleanups.
The biggest change in this release is that controlling the daemon has become better, you can ask it to reload an agent or all agents and a few other [...]

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