Multi-Vendor Configuration Pusher

Tue Jul 15 14:07:54 UTC 2014

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Ryan Shea <ryanshea at google.com> wrote:
> I have a chunk of code for a multi-vendor configuration push tool under the
> Apache 2.0
> license. Some of you may be interested.
>
> https://code.google.com/p/ldpush/
>

(as a contributor and user externally of this code)
excellent :)

> This is an easily extensible framework on top of paramiko and pexpect in
> Python for distributing configuration to (or running commands on) devices.
> Currently we have the following vendor targets:
>
>   * aruba
>   * brocade
>   * cisconx
>   * ciscoxr
>   * hp (procurve)
>   * ios
>   * junos
>   * generic ssh
>
> I have a thin wrapper around these vendor implementations which allows for
> threaded pushes and a couple small operational conveniences, but would
> appreciate any feedback <https://code.google.com/p/ldpush/issues/list> and
> testing. Please treat this as you would any *new* code -- do not consider
> it production quality. This project and Capirca
> <https://code.google.com/p/capirca/> go together like beans and cornbread,
> if you're into that sort of thing.
>

As noted ~4 yrs ago by Michael Shields (I think? maybe Tim Chung did
the presentation at Nanog?) we use this internally, and externally
(now). Having this available for management of devices is super
helpful (to me).

Thanks!
-chris

> Thanks,
> Ryan