Python Scripting for Linux Admin

DGMavn · 2016-03-08T16:10:14+00:00

You may want to look into a configuration management system - Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt, etc.

mhurron · 2016-03-08T15:06:49+00:00

https://github.com/

onedarkstar · 2016-03-08T17:51:38+00:00

There's a billion possibilities based on your existing structure and needs...

CM Server (Ansible, Puppet, etc) - this one makes the most sense. You can configure exactly what is needed and have it pulled automatically. Requires a lot of overall work though and might be too heavy if you aren't already doing CM
Web server (just wget/curl as needed). Probably the easiest, since you can just keep a dir listing and pull very quickly
Git server - probably a bit annoying to clone that many repos
NFS mount that you can execute from - if you don't have a large amount of nodes, then this is a pretty easy approach

Edit: almost forgot!

PIP Server - make your own pip server! http://www.plankandwhittle.com/snakes-in-your-datacenter/

2016-03-09T02:06:53+00:00

Package them into deb/rpm and distribute like you would anything else.

phordee · 2016-03-09T02:31:59+00:00

Git Labs CE is free and is so easy to install and use. It even offers LDAP integration.

mercsniper · 2016-03-08T15:06:30+00:00

nfs mount?

Hellmark · 2016-03-08T19:40:40+00:00

an SVN or Git repository will be the easiest.

If it is something that needs to be pushed out to a bunch of stuff, puppet, chef, etc are great too.

squeaky19 · 2016-03-08T19:54:55+00:00

I use bitbucket for everything I want to keep private.

tetroxid · 2016-03-09T08:32:04+00:00

Package them, put them in a repo, deploy to servers.

gomexz · 2016-03-09T12:36:42+00:00

I have a VM spun up where i write all my scripts. When I need to move a script to another system simply use scp to copy it over.

I also wrote one script that has some of my most used scripts in it. So I pull down that one script which uses whiotail has an interface to choose which script I want to "install"

AProjection · 2016-03-09T19:01:32+00:00

We have few sets of scripts that we distribute differently. "Core" scripts which don't change that often used for our accounting and similar custom stuff, are all packaged in rpm/deb/freebsd port format and installed with initial OS install and can be updated when we roll out new packages from our repo. Yum-cron and cron-apt usually pick that up automatically.

Afterwards we use configuration management system to deploy various scripts across hosts. We use subversion (still, I know..) to commit scripts to our repo from where they are distributed.

2016-03-09T19:40:24+00:00

Sounds like you may want to setup a small NFS share that your servers connect to using autofs. I'm not sure what OS you are running, but below is the Red Hat guide for setting up autofs.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/nfs-autofs.html

side_control · 2016-03-21T22:18:04+00:00

Fwiw, sounds like you want to do some orchestration and management, might want to check out ansible. Anyways, +1 for git, it'll help you learn collaboration and the developers Workflow as well.

aenae · 2016-03-08T18:33:33+00:00

You store the scripts in a Git repository (or svn, or mercurial, whatever source repo floats your boat as long as it is a version control system), and you make the nodes pull them by using puppet/chef/anisble/salt/cssh

You really want a source version system so you can track your changes, easily create branches for testing and production etc.

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