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Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.
by bananas 12y ago
Neat but do people really play with their VMs often enough for things like this to have value. I rarely touch any once they're up.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoIts less "often" and more "convenient". If you need to make a chance, reboot, shutdown, etc, is it easier to open your browser, login to DO, find the droplet, etc? Or two clicks in the menubar?
- eridius 12y agoUnless you do it every few days, menubar seems maybe a bit excessive. Something like linode/cli[1] might be a better solution for the occasional use. [1]: https://github.com/linode/cli https://github.com/linode/cli Naturally, this is for Linode, but I assume there exist CLI tools for other providers.
- rschmitty 12y agoCan't imagine not trying to login to the server and doing some investigation before just doing a blind reboot I agree with parent, and prefer this http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ http://fitztrev.github.io/shuttle/ Best of both worlds (and works with all hosts) only thing you lose is the 1 click reboot/shutdown
- toomuchtodo 12y agoI use shuttle (all of our infrastructure is AWS); excellent recommendation. And you would be surprised how often blind reboots happen (sometimes you don't get to make the call). Disclaimer: DevOps/Sysadmin.
- rschmitty 12y agoHopefully you aren't taking calls from the Sales Guy telling you to reboot blind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8_Kfjo3VjU :P
- toomuchtodo 12y agoClassic!
- hsx 12y agoI use shuttle as well as sshpass so I don't have to enter in the passwords (too many to remember).
- bananas 12y agoVersus click the bookmark to your droplet list or linode list? Or do your service maintenance via ssh on the box?
- toomuchtodo 12y agoI'm saying it clearly has value. You may not agree, but there appears to be an audience for the tool.