puppetlabs-toy-chest/wash

Integrate with existing Bolt Inventory

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Focus on interactive approach to interacting with Bolt targets rather than script-driven.

  • Easier to read logs across a variety of systems.
  • Pre-configured direct filesystem access.
  • Copy files between systems.

Add a new plugin that reads an existing Bolt inventory and presents items in that inventory as a hierarchy you can navigate.

  • Explore that inventory with Wash. Entries should include any information in the inventory as metadata.
  • Hierarchy could have: organize by groups and subgroups. Nodes not in a group are in an implicit all group, but that encompasses everything, so we should probably have a special group name for these.
  • Implement SSHFS over that inventory.

Plan

Could use signal for other Bolt actions not captured by Wash primitives like run_script, run_plan, etc, though we'd need to extend signal to support all of that.

I think that's a different facet of this, more aligned with #249.

Be careful not to pull in puppet as a dependency when loading Bolt as a library. Also, we can likely pre-compute the entire hierarchy the first time we run list.