Improve Servers about sake

[alajmo]

I think the regex filtering of servers task would be a good start (code paths for similar functionality exist, see tags/servers).

Some notes:

• Set via flag or config, I'm thinking the name --match could be used
• Target server hosts (so it's not regex for the server names, but for the server hosts)
• Write some unit tests

[josegonzalez]

I think I would pair this with another tool, like a python script, that generates the servers to connect to. But I would like to modify what that python tool generates (maybe select a different region or env) based on some runtime arguments that sake would pass to the script. Not sure what the interface might look like.

[alajmo]

All features are released with v0.12.0 now. @josegonzalez you can now run the following:

    servers:
        inv:
            inventory: ./some-python-script $somearg
            env:
              somearg: 192.168.1.2 

# use default somearg 192.168.1.2
sake run <task> -s inv

# Pass CLI argument
sake run <task> -s inv somearg=192.168.1.99

[alesauce]

Hello! I’d like to contribute to this project, but I don’t want to duplicate anything that you’re actively working on. Is there anything on this issue that I can pick up, or should I find another one?

[josegonzalez]

Would be great to be able to pass arguments to whatever gets inventory. Something like:

    # sake run -s server-1 -inventory-args "--expanded-args here"
    servers:
      # One of the following:
      # host: 192.168.1.1
      # hosts: www[01:50].example.com # look at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/intro_inventory.html#adding-ranges-of-hosts
      # hosts:
      # - 192.168.1.1
      # - 192.168.1.2
      inventory: some-command

So the inventory command would be:

some-command --expanded-args here

[alajmo]

Not sure I follow, do you mean something like this:

    servers:
        name: server-1
            inventory: echo $SOME_ENV

$ sake run ping -s server-1 SOME_ENV="192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2"

which would run task ping on servers:

• 192.168.1.1
• 192.168.1.2