Conductor

Conductor leads you through the chaos of your infrastructure

Disclaimer: conductor is nothing more than a servers inventory. Originally such a project was created at Yandex to help system engineers to store and classify their servers combining them into groups which are combined into projects. Conductor is able to watch for your data structure consistency and check users' permissions to modify it. With a fast and well structured REST API it can be used by various CMS systems like Saltstack, Chef, Puppet and Ansible as an extra filter for running states and commands. With built-in conductor tags and custom fields one can store roles of groups or individual servers which is convenient for use as an extra data for state formulas.

Original version of conductor has an ability to track deployment and packages movement among repositories which won't be represented in this opensource version.

Important: this version is not based on the original one but created from scratch using absolutely separate technologies.

Development bootstrap

Being in deep development and moving from one notebook to another, from MacOSX to Windows and Linux, the current conductor version has become very easy to set up.

• Clone repo and cd into its' directory.
• Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install the python requirements. Using virtualenv is highly recommended
• This version requires mongodb 2.6+ server to be installed on localhost with conductor itself. You can change this behaviour in config/db.py file. Although it's tracked by git and no mechanism has been created for custom configuration yet. So just put mongodb right alongside your conductor installation, it's just the most appropriate solution at the moment.
• Run ./micro.py index to create indexes. Be sure your mongodb server is up and running.
• Run ./micro.py shell to start project shell. If you have IPython installed in your virtualenv, it will be used automatically.
• Create a supervisor user like described below:

from app.models import User
user = User(username="<your_nickname>", password_raw="<your_password_in_plaintext>", supervisor=True)
user.save()

• Exit the shell using Ctrl-D and run ./micro.py run to start python development server. By default it binds on port 5000, you can check it with a browser or something like curl using url http://localhost:5000/api/v1/account/me - it will give you Unauthorized error.
• cd to reactapp and run npm install to install React.js and all the react application dependencies. You must have node.js 6+ installed
• Run npm start to build react application, don't be scared when it starts your browser automatically.
• Log in using your supervisor username and password

Roadmap

v6.6

• Mass actions for hosts and groups
• Visual and UX improvements

v6.7

• Plugin system for Authentication and additional controllers
• Huge code refactoring

v6.8

• Action Logging system