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.
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