[Buildbot-devel] BuildBot for Desired State Configuration

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

That is certainly *possible* but Buildbot's not intended as a
high-security piece of software, so I wouldn't necessarily trust it
with things like root access, write access to SSH private keys, and so
on.

Configuration management systems may be a better tool.  We've had good
success with Ansible for managing the Buildbot infrastructure.

Dustin

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:35 PM, Jeremy Cornett
<jeremy.cornett at venafi.com> wrote:
> 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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