Question

We have around 250 identical linux server which runs a business critical web application for a bank. Basically we do a lot of scripting work but now i want to centralize that only in one location. That means run on one server and and deploy it in many. I know you guys must be thinking that this is an easy task and can be done with a shell script. But again we need to create many different different scripts to do our work

I know python has a big library and this can be possible but i dont know how. To cut in short i need all scripts in one file and based on the argument it will execute it according.

For example in a python program we have a function where we can mix them to perform different result.

So you please let me know how to go about it

Answer 1

This is a very general question, so I’ll respond with two different frameworks that are made using Python to facilitate bulk system administration tasks.

1. func – Func is part of the
   Fedora project and so is specialized
   to their architecture. If your hosts
   are all RedHat/CentOS based, this is
   the solution for you.

2. fabric – Fabric is more generic
   but does generally the same thing at
   a high level. If your environment
   is heterogenous (full of different
   types of systems/distributions),
   this is probably what you want.