jmptrader / gautomator

A distributed agentless configuration and management tool written in go (WIP)

gautomator

A distributed agentless configuration and management tool written in go base on graph

This is my first project in Go.

What gautomator should be someday:

• a duct for binaries and configuration for deploying an infrastructure and/or a distributed application.
• a distributed configuration and management software.

gautomator aim to replicate and spread itself like a flu.

Why go ?

• a compiled go project is a single binary, which make is good for an heterogenous infrastructure. You just copy the gautomator and it does not need anything else to run (no python dependency, no perl, no ruby, no whatever lib...)
• Concurency of course !
• It looks fast
• Not too difficult to learn (I will tell you that in a few weeks)
• A lot of library exists in the standard implementation

WIP

gautomator is in heavy developement, see the wiki and the issue for more information. And for even more information about the implementation:

• twitter: @owulveryck

How to

• grab a Go compiler from https://golang.org
• go get github.com/owulveryck/gautomator
• go run main.go -nodes=../examples/nodes.json ../examples/*.dot
• http://localhost:8080/index.html (It needs dot installed for a representation, but it will change in the future)

tests and developement

This work is developed on MacOS and FreeBSD. It will be tested as well on Linux.

I will try to stick to pure go implementation to remain portable.

Dependencies

I would stick to pure go implementation in order to get a single binary that may run "anywhere"

Go dependency so far:

• github.com/docker/libchan for the client/server communication
• github.com/docker/libchan/spdy
• github.com/gonum/matrix/mat64 for the matrix manipulation (for the graph theory)
• github.com/awalterschulze/gographviz for parsing the topology files
• github.com/gorilla/mux for the webserver implementation

Note

This project is in developpement. It is a work in progress and a Feature Driven Developement. On top of that, I'm learning go (and the developement).

Be tolerant !