A friend recently pointed me at a project called mcollective. The Marionette Collective aka. mcollective is a framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems. An introduction to mcollective is on the projects wiki page. We’ve attempted to think out of the box a bit designing this system by not relying on central [...]
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