diff --git a/blog/sexy-cdist-interaction-sexy-chooses-cdist-configures.mdwn b/blog/sexy-cdist-interaction-sexy-chooses-cdist-configures.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3c1a9ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/sexy-cdist-interaction-sexy-chooses-cdist-configures.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +[[!meta title="Sexy and cdist interaction: Sexy chooses hosts, cdist configures"]] + +## Introduction + +Version 2 of [[sexy|software/sexy]], +the Swiss Army Knife for inventory management, is already +**using** and **usable** from [[cdist/software/cdist]]. + +This is the first blog post of a series showing examples of +using sexy and cdist. + +## Example + +Cdist is executed with a list of hosts to operate on: + + % cdist config + usage: cdist config [-h] [-d] [-v] [-c CDIST_HOME] [-i MANIFEST] [-p] [-s] + [--remote-copy REMOTE_COPY] [--remote-exec REMOTE_EXEC] + host [host ...] + + +Sexy in turn is able to manage hosts, mac addresses and networks: + + % sexy + usage: sexy [-h] [-d] [-v] [-V] {net-ipv4,host,mac} ... + sexy: error: too few arguments + +Sexy knows about a command to list hosts, named **host list**. +So I can use sexy to tell cdist which hosts to configure. For instance +all dhcp servers: + + % sexy host list | grep dhcp + dhcp-vm-inx01.intra.local.ch + dhcp-vm-inx02.intra.local.ch + dhcp-vm-snr01.intra.local.ch + dhcp-vm-snr02.intra.local.ch + + % ./bin/cdist config -vp $(sexy host list | grep dhcp) + INFO: dhcp-vm-inx01.intra.local.ch: Running global explorers + INFO: dhcp-vm-snr01.intra.local.ch: Running global explorers + INFO: dhcp-vm-snr02.intra.local.ch: Running global explorers + INFO: dhcp-vm-inx02.intra.local.ch: Running global explorers + ... + +Sexy, isn't it? + + +[[!tag cdist localch net sexy unix]]