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title: Announcing Pabawi, a web frontend for classic infrastructures
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Is there still space in AI and Cloud native days, for a new tool to manage classic infrastructures, basic on physical or virtual servers?
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Is there still space in AI and Cloud native days for a new tool to manage classic infrastructures based on physical or virtual servers?
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If you handle good old servers, and use Puppet, Bolt or Ansible to configure and manage them, then the answer might be yes, and we may have a nice tool for you.
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**Pabawi** is a new, moderm, sleek web frontend to inventory your systems, check they configuration management status, and run actions on them.
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**Pabawi** is a new, modern, sleek web frontend to inventory your systems, check their configuration management status, and run actions on them.
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Needless to sat that it's also Open Source.
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Version 0.4.0, just released after a few weeks of AI based coding, has integrations with Bolt, Hiera, PuppetDB and PuppetServer.
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Current version is expected to be run by a Puppet developer or user on her/his localhost, featuring:
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Current version is expected to be executed by a Puppet developer or user on her/his localhost, featuring:
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-**Multi-Source Inventory**: View and manage nodes from Bolt inventory and PuppetDB
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-**Command Execution**: Run ad-hoc commands on remote nodes with whitelist security
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-**Event Tracking**: Monitor individual resource changes and failures over time
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-**PQL Queries**: Filter nodes using PuppetDB Query Language
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-**Hiera Data Browser**: Explore hierarchical configuration data and key usage analysis
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-**Puppet code analysys**: Analyses Puppet code base, reporting class usage, lint issues, outdated modules in Puppetfile
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-**Puppet code analysis**: Analyses Puppet code base, reporting class usage, lint issues, outdated modules in Puppetfile
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More robust users management and RBAC, Ansible and other tools integrations are planned for future versions.
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More robust users management and RBAC, and Ansible and other tools integrations are planned for future versions.
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Check the [git repository](https://github.com/example42/pabawi.git) for installation instructions and details.
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## Screenshots
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Here are some screenshots, from a test setup with few nodes. The interface adapts well and is still fast on larger setups (currently tested with infrastructures up to 350 nodes).
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Here are some screenshots, from a test setup with few nodes. The interface adapts well and is still fast on way larger setups (currently tested with infrastructures up to 350 nodes).
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### Nodes Inventory
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*Puppet reports view, with run times and number of affected resource.*
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*Puppet reports view, with run times and number of affected resources*
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## Free installation service (time limited)
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Pabawi is easy to integrate in your existing Puppet / Bolt infrastructure and has contextual setup instructions for each integration, but if you want help in trying it in your infrastructure, example42 offers a launch special, time limited, **free installation service**, no strings attached.
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In a shared screen call we can setup Pabawi with you, either using its container image or via npm.
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In a shared screen call we can setup Pabawi together, either using its container image or via npm.
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We want to test and validate it in different conditions, collecting users' feedback and suggestions.
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