Project/Tool to deploy and maintain Edge Servers (VMs) remotely

Fri Sep 4 11:03:23 UTC 2020

> On Sep 4, 2020, at 6:52 AM, Douglas Fischer <fischerdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm looking for some tool to work as a Comand and Control of several remote nodes.
> 
> The idea is to have many-many nodes of Virtual Machines running on every ASN voluntarily to deploy some services spread everywhere we can.
> 
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> Something like a Call-Home, that allows the headquarter to track operation, health state, deploy commands.
> (Re-reading this phrase, it could sound like a newbie
>  hacker trying to create his own Mirai. haha...
>  It's not the case... I'm not on the dark side of the force.)
> 
> 
> I was thinking in use something like reverse ssh and ansible.
> But I thought that I'm probably reinventing part of the wheel.
> 
> I want to believe that there already some projects that would put-me some steps further on this project.
> 
> 
> Could anyone give-me some-tip?
> 

You may want to look at the NLNOG Ring both for examples, but also for how to have interesting views from around the world, similar to RIPE Atlas.

- Jared