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

Thanks for the great comment. Let's chat sometime, love to pick your brain a bit. Send me an e-mail.

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/ ).

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

Started this thread, but in no means affiliated. It seems as though you need the 'enterprise version' (scroll down the homepage).

Thanks for posting, it appears that it got marked as a link voting ring though. Shoot me an e-mail, let's chat a bit.

Yes, Commando.io Enterprise.

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.

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

Please try again, we just upgraded web2 because of the increased launch load. Sorry about that. Let me know if its still not working for you.

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

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

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