Yeah, I was one of the Func authors. That minion/overlord terminology, globbing, delegation, minion-to-minion, etc, are ideas clearly from there. I think mCol

Yeah, I was one of the Func authors. That minion/overlord terminology, globbing, delegation, minion-to-minion, etc, are ideas clearly from there. I think mCollective was the first to take our Func-on-AMQP ideas and implement them, actually, though Salt was probably the first to try to stick a CM layer on the top of a Func-based-system, like I was planning but hadn't got around to ("Remote Rocket Surgery" was the placeholder codename for that on top of Func). As far as Func->Ansible goes, Seth Vidal (another one of the original authors) also does a lot of commits and wrote our yum module -- and is now using it for Fedora Infrastructure. I wouldn't really recommend anyone look at Func anymore -- it's fading just a little bit (taken over by Steve Salesvan, also ex Red Hat), but it's still in use at places like Tumblr, which is a pretty large setup. Still, it was fun to do. We sort of did multiprocessing before multiprocessing.py :) Adoption is going pretty well at the moment and it has been fun to watch. Several setups in the couple thousand of node ranges, lots around Big Data applications.