[Buildbot-devel] BuildBot for Desired State Configuration

[Jeremy Cornett]

I have been searching for a simple way to execute commands against all of my
BuildBot slaves to perform on demand maintenance to the boxes. Maybe I need
to rotate and SSH key, run Windows Update, or install a program. Since I
administer Windows and Linux buildslaves (mostly Windows), I can't use a
single technology to do this with, or if I could, it's extremely frustrating
to configure, especially on windows. I was thinking that I could setup a
builder one each of the buildslaves that would run scripts to do
maintenance/configuration on the machine, and to protect those builders I
could only let them be forced after an authorized user logs in and they'd
only be show in a special category, so they wouldn't appear on the normal
waterfall page everyone sees. I know there's a lot of tools out there for
configuring systems like Puppet or Powershell DSC, but I was wondering, has
anyone has ever tried to do it with BuildBot as the delivery mechanism, and
custom scripts for the actual configuration?

 

Thanks,

Jeremy Cornett

 

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