cdist/bin/cdist-mass-deploy

#!/bin/sh
#
# 2011 Nico Schottelius (nico-cdist at schottelius.org)
#
# This file is part of cdist.
#
# cdist is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# cdist is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with cdist. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
#
# Deploy configuration to many hosts
#

. cdist-config
[ $# -ge 1 ] || __cdist_usage "[-p] <target host> [target host ...]"
set -eu

parallel=""
if [ "$1" = "-p" ]; then
   parallel=yes
   shift
fi

while [ $# -ge 1 ]; do
   # always assume we run parallel
   cdist-deploy-to "$1" | awk -v host=$1 '{ print "[" host "] " $0 }' &
   shift

   # if not, wait for it _now_
   [ "$parallel" ] || wait
done

# else wait after all are started
if [ "$parallel" ]; then
   echo "Waiting for cdist-deploy-to jobs to finish..."
   wait
fi