A super-user shell which allow controlling multiple hosts in a smart way, no more annoying "Deploy on all servers" tasks!! All you need is:

• Connect to a test server
• Run the needed commands
• Test your deployment
• Save the commands and the edited configuration files.

Then spread on all your servers easily!! Expert? OK, just connect to the server group, run your commands, edit your configurations, and you're done!

Features:

• Easy to use
• Portable taningia-shell dir (host-groups, command-groups, config files)
• Easy CLI wizard to save or call command-groups/host-groups
• Options to run commands/command-groups non-interactively (e.g. compatible with crontab)
• SSH keys are optional but highly recommended, but you've to use keys if you'll run in non-interactive mode (e.g. crontab)

Installation:

apt-get install fabric

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mahmoudadel2/taningia-shell/master/taningia-shell.py -O /usr/local/bin/taningia-shell

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/taningia-shell

How to use:

Interactive mode (default):

• call the command plus the target host/hosts separated by comma:

taningia-shell host1.example.com,host2.example.com

• You can specify another user than your current user by entering the hosts that way:

taningia-shell ubuntu@host1.example.com,root@host2.example.com

• You can specify another port than port 22 by entering the hosts that way:

taningia-shell host1.example.com:2222,ubuntu@host2.example.com:4422

• Now you are attached to 2 hosts with 1 prompt, type the commands you need:

taningia-shell@2-hosts> hostname
Output from host1.example.com:
host1

Output from host2.example.com:
host2

• As long as you type commands the commands are recorded, if you want to save the commands you type as a command-group for easier call-back in the future:

taningia-shell@2-hosts> save

• To run a previously saved command-group:

taningia-shell@2-hosts> run

• You can use save for saving the hosts also as host-group.

• To connect to a previously saved host-group, pass the host-group instead of host/hosts argument when call taningia-shell command:

taningia-shell host-group1

Non-interactive mode:

• To run command on certain host/hosts/host-group:

taningia-shell host1.example.com,host2.example.com -r hostname

• To run a command-group on certain host/hosts/host-group:

taningia-shell host1.example.com,host2.example.com -g command-group1

Configuration files:

• $HOME/taningia-shell/etc/commandgroups.cfg

• $HOME/taningia-shell/etc/hostgroups.cfg

Uninstallation:

rm -v /usr/local/bin/taningia-shell

rm -rvf $HOME/taningia-shell/