Commando.io
Infrastructure
server management
SHOW HN2014
68points
44comments
#463of 2,272 in 2014
Top 21%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, intuitive UX and design
From 3 comments
I like the UX. CLean, intuitive and to the point. Any plan for a private cloud version?
marketo_cpeng on HNgorgeous -- curious, what is the backend tech? Fabric +/- stuff like ansible/chef/etc? NVM - just saw it's MEAN stack based.
hardwaresofton on HNThis looks awesome! I was just thinking of something like this the other day. Can't wait to try it. Any chance of being able to import from Linode in addition to DO, EC2,…
rob on HN
Objections
No Ansible or config management support; recipes are written in the web editor
From 2 comments
That's unfortunate. I understand where you are coming from on making this absolutely as simple as possible for those who are maybe not so admin inclined, but I feel it's limiting…
jetblackio on HNYes, I think it would be a deal breaker for me personally. For the one thing, there would be a bit of effort to migrate from any config management system (my background is Chef…
jetblackio on HN
Pricing too high for small deployments
From 2 comments
There's a pricing page once you are signed up: https://<yourusername>.commando.io/pricing Looks like the smallest plan is $18/month for "12 servers and 5 users". I'd love to see…
dewey on HNVery cool, is there any ETA on parallel execution and background execution (ex: Currently, you have to stay on the page while the recipe executes.) Additionally, it seems that…
Pyramids on HN
Requests
Parallel and background execution of recipes
From 1 comment
Very cool, is there any ETA on parallel execution and background execution (ex: Currently, you have to stay on the page while the recipe executes.) Additionally, it seems that…
Pyramids on HN
Slack or HipChat notifications
From 1 comment
Any thoughts on adding an integration for Slack? I would like to see notifications for the following events: 1. When a recipe (script) is run on a server. 2. Any user…
avelis on HN
Linode support
From 2 comments
This looks awesome! I was just thinking of something like this the other day. Can't wait to try it. Any chance of being able to import from Linode in addition to DO, EC2,…
rob on HNAny particular reason for not supporting Linode?
omarkassim on HN
Git import of recipes
From 1 comment
No plan to support Ansible. However, being able to push/import scripts (we call them recipes) from git into Commando.io is a highly requested feature and on the roadmap. Also,…
nodesocket on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Ansible Tower, Chef or Salt
From 2 comments
Looks well designed and thought out. Can you give me a use case as to when this would be better a better solution than say Chef or Salt?
deweller on HNSo how does this compare to Ansible tower which also comes with an web GUI + it is self-hosted
sida on HN
Is there logging or audit trail for executions
From 2 comments
Pretty cool project. I like the simplicity of it. Definitely bookmarking for the future. Based on the video, can you run any shell/bash script you can think of? And does this…
coreymgilmore on HNcsshx is great but lacks the audit trail (output stored) we offer. Additionally with standard parallel ssh tools, you don't have centralized user access management, and cloud…
nodesocket on HN
Alternatives named
Ansible Tower
From 3 comments
it seems from the demo that the script is simply executed on the server. There's no reason you couldn't build a commando.io "recipe" that just wraps ansible-playbook, although…
fps on HNAnsible Tower.
joncooper on HNSo how does this compare to Ansible tower which also comes with an web GUI + it is self-hosted
sida on HN
Rundeck
From 1 comment
So, this is like RunDeck (http://rundeck.org/), only hosted.
kolev on HN
csshx
From 1 comment
Although obviously much simpler, I've always been a huge fan of csshx. https://code.google.com/p/csshx/
paulrr on HN
dsh
From 1 comment
I use dsh for this: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/software/dsh.html.en It's command line, but you can set up groups of servers and execute commands against all of the machines…
gibbonsd1 on HN