Executing code on the client
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.
A note about the exercises
It is pretty easy to try out the various deployment systems using Docker to manage the base operating system, where we will do our experiments. It is a time-saving method that can be used when developing and debugging the deployment code specific to a particular deployment system. ...
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