Public beta commando.io

by gbrits on 11/12/2013, 8:50 PM with 13 comments

commando.io- Manage servers as a Service. Looks pretty nice. Not sure on price (if any) after the beta though.

  • by mappu on 11/12/2013, 9:27 PM

    This kind of project is great if your infrastructure is in that inbetween-stage between manual ssh (1-2 servers) and full puppet/chef automation.

    There are a lot of concerns about trusting the third party host. I don't want to put down a solid attempt at turning this into a business, but server management fundamentally needs to be a commodity, so expect them to focus on the user management / audit trail and other value-adds in the future.

    Commando.io was previously an open source project [1], but that didn't support parallel execution or live streaming results over websockets; there are cli alternatives e.g. pssh [2], clusterssh, sshpt [3]; and i wanted something like this in a hurry, so i hacked together my own opencommandio[4] using the awesome node-ssh2 library.

    1. https://github.com/nodesocket/commando

    2. http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pssh , https://code.google.com/p/parallel-ssh/

    3. https://code.google.com/p/sshpt/

    4. http://code.ivysaur.me/opencommandio.html

  • by drinchev on 11/13/2013, 1:03 PM

    Great project ;)

    I was just wondering ( totally irrelevant to the comments about security ), how such companies can give away their source code ( I assume that commandoIO enterprise is still NodeJS project ) and how they are protecting it afterwards. There is similar way of enterprise edition from Github ( https://enterprise.github.com/ ).

  • by koenigdavidmj on 11/12/2013, 9:03 PM

    I'm not going to let your random site SSH into my machines. Can I host this myself?

  • by presty on 11/13/2013, 2:07 AM

    This is very interesting. Wondering if it's a service that VPS hosts could provide. Think Digital Ocean doing this or just exposing access through their API.

  • by edwhitesell on 11/12/2013, 9:04 PM

    I entered my name, it said my account was created and gave me a URL. But, that URL wouldn't load.

  • by davidbanham on 11/12/2013, 9:14 PM

    The site needs to tell me why it's better than Chef or any of the other existing alternatives.

  • by Twirrim on 11/12/2013, 9:25 PM

    Sure, I'll give you SSH access to my servers. I know I can totally trust you!

  • by felipellrocha on 11/12/2013, 9:09 PM

    Interesting. How does this differ from tools like salt, puppet and chef?