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Public beta commando.io

12 points by gbrits 13y ago

commando.io- Manage servers as a Service. Looks pretty nice. Not sure on price (if any) after the beta though.

koenigdavidmj 13y ago
I'm not going to let your random site SSH into my machines. Can I host this myself?
- gbrits 13y ago
  Started this thread, but in no means affiliated. It seems as though you need the 'enterprise version' (scroll down the homepage).
  - nodesocket 13y ago
    Thanks for posting, it appears that it got marked as a link voting ring though. Shoot me an e-mail, let's chat a bit.
- nodesocket 13y ago
  Yes, Commando.io Enterprise.
edwhitesell 13y ago
I entered my name, it said my account was created and gave me a URL. But, that URL wouldn't load.
- nodesocket 13y ago
  Please try again, we just upgraded web2 because of the increased launch load. Sorry about that. Let me know if its still not working for you.
felipellrocha 13y ago
Interesting. How does this differ from tools like salt, puppet and chef?
davidbanham 13y ago
The site needs to tell me why it's better than Chef or any of the other existing alternatives.
Twirrim 13y ago
Sure, I'll give you SSH access to my servers. I know I can totally trust you!
mappu 13y ago
This kind of project is great if your infrastructure is in that inbetween-stage between manual ssh (1-2 servers) and full puppet/chef automation. There are a lot of concerns about trusting the third party host. I don't want to put down a solid attempt at turning this into a business, but server management fundamentally needs to be a commodity, so expect them to focus on the user management / audit trail and other value-adds in the future. Commando.io was previously an open source project [1], but that didn't support parallel execution or live streaming results over websockets; there are cli alternatives e.g. pssh [2], clusterssh, sshpt [3]; and i wanted something like this in a hurry, so i hacked together my own opencommandio[4] using the awesome node-ssh2 library. 1. https://github.com/nodesocket/commando https://github.com/nodesocket/commando 2. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh , https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ 3. https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/ https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/ 4. http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html
- nodesocket 13y ago
  Thanks for the great comment. Let's chat sometime, love to pick your brain a bit. Send me an e-mail.
presty 13y ago
This is very interesting. Wondering if it's a service that VPS hosts could provide. Think Digital Ocean doing this or just exposing access through their API.
drinchev 13y ago
Great project ;) I was just wondering ( totally irrelevant to the comments about security ), how such companies can give away their source code ( I assume that commandoIO enterprise is still NodeJS project ) and how they are protecting it afterwards. There is similar way of enterprise edition from Github ( https://enterprise.github.com/ https://enterprise.github.com/ ).

12 points by gbrits 13y ago

commando.io- Manage servers as a Service. Looks pretty nice. Not sure on price (if any) after the beta though.

koenigdavidmj 13y ago

I'm not going to let your random site SSH into my machines. Can I host this myself?

gbrits 13y ago
Started this thread, but in no means affiliated. It seems as though you need the 'enterprise version' (scroll down the homepage).
- nodesocket 13y ago
  Thanks for posting, it appears that it got marked as a link voting ring though. Shoot me an e-mail, let's chat a bit.
nodesocket 13y ago
Yes, Commando.io Enterprise.

edwhitesell 13y ago

I entered my name, it said my account was created and gave me a URL. But, that URL wouldn't load.

nodesocket 13y ago
Please try again, we just upgraded web2 because of the increased launch load. Sorry about that. Let me know if its still not working for you.

felipellrocha 13y ago

Interesting. How does this differ from tools like salt, puppet and chef?

davidbanham 13y ago

The site needs to tell me why it's better than Chef or any of the other existing alternatives.

Twirrim 13y ago

Sure, I'll give you SSH access to my servers. I know I can totally trust you!

mappu 13y ago

This kind of project is great if your infrastructure is in that inbetween-stage between manual ssh (1-2 servers) and full puppet/chef automation. There are a lot of concerns about trusting the third party host. I don't want to put down a solid attempt at turning this into a business, but server management fundamentally needs to be a commodity, so expect them to focus on the user management / audit trail and other value-adds in the future. Commando.io was previously an open source project [1], but that didn't support parallel execution or live streaming results over websockets; there are cli alternatives e.g. pssh [2], clusterssh, sshpt [3]; and i wanted something like this in a hurry, so i hacked together my own opencommandio[4] using the awesome node-ssh2 library. 1. https://github.com/nodesocket/commando https://github.com/nodesocket/commando 2. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh , https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/ 3. https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/ https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/ 4. http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html

nodesocket 13y ago
Thanks for the great comment. Let's chat sometime, love to pick your brain a bit. Send me an e-mail.

presty 13y ago

This is very interesting. Wondering if it's a service that VPS hosts could provide. Think Digital Ocean doing this or just exposing access through their API.

drinchev 13y ago

Great project ;) I was just wondering ( totally irrelevant to the comments about security ), how such companies can give away their source code ( I assume that commandoIO enterprise is still NodeJS project ) and how they are protecting it afterwards. There is similar way of enterprise edition from Github ( https://enterprise.github.com/ https://enterprise.github.com/ ).