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I'm very excited to unveil Operon , a high performance replacement for Ansible® Engine, tailored for large installations and offered by subscription. Operon runs your existing playbooks, modules, plug-ins and third party tools without modification using an upgraded engine, dramatically increasing the practical number of nodes addressable in a single run, and potentially saving hours on every…
Mitogen for Ansible v0.2.8 has been released. This version (finally) supports Ansible 2.8, comes with a supercharged replacement fetch module, and includes roughly 85% of what is needed to implemement fully asynchronous connect. As usual a huge slew of fixes are included. This is a bumper release, running to over 20k lines of diff. Get it while it's hot, and as always, bug reports are welcome!
Mitogen has been explicitly multi-threaded since the design was first conceived. This choice is hard to regret, as it aligns well with the needs of operating systems like Windows , makes background tasks like proxying possible, and allows painless integration with existing programs where the user doesn't have to care how communication is implemented. Easy blocking APIs simply work as documented…
Mitogen for Ansible v0.2.4 v0.2.5 has been released. This version is noteworthy as it contains major refinements to the core libary and Ansible extension to improve its behaviour during larger Ansible runs. Work on scalability is far from complete, as it progresses towards inclusion of a patch held back since last summer to introduce per-CPU multiplexers. The current idea is to exhaust profiling…
An early goal for Mitogen was to make it simple to retrofit, avoiding any "opinionated" choices likely to cause needless or impossible changes in downstream code. Despite being internally asynchronous, a blocking and mostly thread-safe API is exposed, with management of the asynchrony punted to a thread, making integrating with a deployment script hopefully as easy as with a GUI. Although rough…
Mitogen for Ansible 's original plan described facets of a scheme centered on features made possible by a rigorous single cohesive distributed program model, but of those facets, it quickly became clear that most users are really only interested in the big one: a much faster Ansible. While I'd prefer feature work, this priority is fine: better performance usually entails enhancements that benefit…
--> After 4 months development, a design phase stretching back 10 years and more than 1,300 commits, I am pleased to finally announce the first stable series of Mitogen and the Mitogen for Ansible extension. Mitogen is a Python zero-deploy distributed programming library designed to drastically increase the functional capability of infrastructure software operating via SSH. Mitogen for Ansible is…
This is the third update on the status of developing Mitogen for Ansible . Too long, didn’t read A beta is coming soon! Aside from async tasks, the master branch is looking great. Since last update there have been many features and fixes, but with important forks in the road ahead, particularly around efficient support for many-host. Read on.. Just tuning in? 2017-09-15: Mitogen, an…
This is the second update on the status of developing the Mitogen extension for Ansible , only 2 weeks late! Too long, didn’t read Gearing up to remove the scary warning labels and release a beta! Running a little behind, but not terribly. Every major risk is solved except file transfer, which should be addressed this week. 23 days, 257 commits, 186 files changed, 7292 insertions(+), 1503…
This is the first in what I hope will be at least a bi-weekly series to keep backers up to date on the current state of delivering the Mitogen extension for Ansible . I’m trying to use every second I have wisely until every major time risk is taken care of, so please forgive the knowledge-dump style of this post :) Haven't been following? Introduction to Mitogen (September 2017) Introduction to…
It’s been an incredibly intense first week crowdfunding the Mitogen extension for Ansible involving far more effort than anticipated, where I have worked almost flat out from waking until the early hours just to ensure any queries are answered thoroughly. I cannot complain, because it has been so much fun that I’d change almost nothing of the experience, and already the campaign has…
[tl;dr: the Mitogen extension for Ansible exists today and it’s as awesome as I promised, but I want to push things much further. If you value free time, this project needs your support ] Allegedly on site as a developer, two summers ago I found myself in a situation you are no doubt familiar with, where despite preferences unrelated problems inevitably gravitate towards whoever can deal…
After a long winter break from recreational programming, over the past days I finally built up steam and broke a chunk of new ground on Mitogen, this time growing its puny module forwarder into a bona fide beast, ready to handle almost any network condition and user code thrown at it. No adversary is a match for the BFG Recap Mitogen is a library for executing parts of a Python program in a remote…
After many years of occasional commitment, I'm finally getting close to a solid implementation of a module I've been wishing existed for over a decade: given a remote machine and an SSH connection, just magically make Python code run on that machine, with no hacks involving error-prone shell snippets, temporary files, or hugely restrictive single use request-response shell pipelines, and suchlike.…
