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Adept

Adept is a very simple way to run commands & deploy apps on multiple servers. It runs on Shell (Linux, Mac, etc), over SSH and without any agents. Adept was created by non-DevOps folks at @UnwiredLabs to quickly manage ~ 25 servers without learning ansible or chef.

###How it works

Adept uses SSH to login to one or more servers and execute a series of sh/bash commands. This can be done sequentially or parallely. Commands are executed from the entry script - deploy.sh and the structure of a typical command is as follows:

$ ./deploy.sh <Host-group file / SSH identity> <Task file> [Parallel or Sequential; default sequential]

Host group & Task files are stored in the ./hosts and ./tasks folders respectively. Hosts are read from the local SSH config file, usually located at ~/.ssh/config. These hosts need to be configured with SSH keys.

###Things you could do on multiple systems with Adept

• Install a new stack
• Add / remove users
• Copy config files to multiple servers while also executing commands (using sFTP)
• Deploy a script (git pulls, etc)
• Deploy a new system by installing default tools
• Just about anything else you do in Shell / Bash, but want replicated :-)

###Examples These examples are included in /tasks folder of the project

####Show current system date on all servers parallely:

$ ./deploy.sh all date 1

####Show available disk space on all servers sequentially:

$ ./deploy.sh all disk 0

####Deploy LAMP-server on a group of hosts:

$ ./deploy.sh webservers deploy-lamp

Adept can also use sFTP to copy files, such as config files, to servers. In-order to deploy the configuration files, we recommend you place them under ./configs folder

####Deploy a PHPMyAdmin instance on a single host:

$ ./deploy.sh host1 deploy-pma

###Adding servers / host-groups

####Create a host-group

• Create a new <host-group-name>.txt file in ./hosts folder
• Enter host names (as configured in your local ~/.ssh/config file) separated by |
• The last host name should be followed by | for the file to work

####For a single server

• You don't have to create a host file. Directly enter the SSH identity name in place of the hostgroup.

###Writing Adept scripts

####Create a task

• Create a new <task-name>.sh file in ./tasks folder
• A simple task file looks like this:

ssh -t -t "$line" \
'hostname &&
exit;'

• This task can execute both parallely or in sequentially
• If it's a parallel task, you should use the following style of code to ensure output for each host comes together:

out=$(printf "\n*SSH to $line*\n\n"
ssh -t -t "$line" \
  'hostname;
  echo -ne "Git pull \t";
  cd /var/www/ &&
  git pull -q && echo "Done";
  exit;
')

printf "%s\n\n" "$out"

• To prevent parallel execution, use this snippet inside your task file:

if [ "$typeExec" = "1" ]; then
    echo "Cannot run parallely, please set parallel to 0"
    exit
fi

• Error handling: Use && at the end of a line to exit if there's an error and ; to continue even if there are errors.

####Create a local-only task To create a task or host-group that's only accessible on your local machine and not visible to GIT, add @ to the task or host group and save it in the /local/ sub-directory.

####Road-map for new features

• Conditions before deploying, like running the tests locally before deploying a project
• Show only error output instead of everything, so it's easier to manage deployments for more servers
• Auto-predict list of hosts & tasks
• Stay simple :-)
• Any other ideas, folks?

Logo credit: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/