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Managing multiple servers from one API?
Hey LET,
just brainstorming, And decided to ask what you thought the best way to manage multiple servers from one site would be.
With my vpn project we current use ssh2(which isn't great) which im trying to switch to something better and easier to manage, For example we send commands upon customer payment to all servers to adduser, And then terminate user once their billing is up, Any ideas what is the best secure way, without browser/server lag to send these commands and in general manage systems?
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I use pssh to manage a few dozen of servers. I really like it.
It's not exactly what you ask for, but generally user's authentication / authorization / accounting is done via radius.
We use pam for authentication / authorization therefore the management and accounting is done all our side.
how does phpseclib compare with pssh ? just a general performance query
I have no knowledge about phpseclib. pssh allows you to run commands, scripts on a lot of servers with on pssh command without logging into them. It really saved me a lot of hours. https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/
I see its written in python hm
look at puppet , it takes time to learn it and master it but once you master it you can do many stuff with is
it gives you full control over large number of servers
Thanks
i heart ansible is ssh based, with their product "ansible tower" you can manage your servers in one panel.