hieb

Simple deployment tool using SSH and supporting command execution and file upload

Call the hieb command for one server like this:

hieb 192.168.0.1 user password [[PATH TO UPLOAD DIR] [PATH TO EXE YAML]]

or

hieb 192.168.0.1 user ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Hieb is searching in the working directory for _exe.json. The content might look like this:

{
  "commands": [
    "hostname",
    "ls -lah /tmp"
  ]
}

Hieb is searching in the working directory for _files. The content of this directory will be uploaded starting from the root directory.

_files/
|-- bin
|   `-- new.exe
|-- etc
|   `-- complex.cfg
`-- tmp
    |-- temporary.cfg
    |-- temporary.db
    `-- temporary.sh

Hieb is an extreme simple tool to execute commands and upload files using only SSH. It is by no mean a replacement for tools like Puppets, Chef, etc. The intention is to have a tool for one time deployments without complex dependencies. I always had the feeling that most tools are to complex for simple machine deployments.

To simplify the command execution you can add the following to your /etc/sudoers:

user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

This allows the usage of sudo without passing a password.