Bug#587929: ITP: bombardier-core-1.00 -- Open Source Configuration management and package delivery (shared components)

[Peter Banka <peter.banka@gmail.com>]

What does it really do: Right now it's a command-line system that allows a guy to manage a whole bunch of computers in his datacenter over ssh. Compare to Chef or ControlTier. For common tasks such as deploying software or making minor changes to system configuration, this tool can make these tasks a lot faster and a lot more reliable. The basic approach is to drive automated SSH sessions over expect. 

There are three major pieces of code to this thing: a "client," which runs on the computers you want to manage, a "server" which runs under Apache and provides a ReST interface, and a "CLI" which provide a Cisco-style command-line interface for driving the whole thing. This particular package is just the shared components between the three of them. We thought we'd package this up first because it's the simplest.

Thanks for your help. Hope this is what you're after. I'll be happy to answer any additional questions. If this goes okay, we'll submit three more packages for the components I described above.
--Peter

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 01:36:12PM -0700, Peter Banka wrote:

> * Package name    : bombardier-core-1.00

The "1.00" bit means that multiple versions will be maintained
independently (for long term support etc)?

> Bombardier is a software system that delivers visibility, control
> and automation to datacenter environments. Bombardier provides a means
> for changes to be rolled out to a network of servers in a highly
> controlled way, providing optimum security, logging, centralized
> change control.

Okay, but what does it do? This is a bunch of buzzwords :/

  Simon