Several of the configuration management systems described here allow you to reuse the node descriptors to execute code on matching nodes. This is sometimes convenient. For example, maybe you want to run a directory-listing command on all HTTP servers facing the public internet, perhaps for debugging purposes.
In the Puppet ecosystem, this command execution system is called Marionette Collective, or MCollective for short.
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