Vines Services are dynamically updated groups of systems based on criteria like hostname, installed software, operating system, etc. Send a command to the service and it runs on every system in the group. Services, files and permissions are managed via the bundled web application.
Services are defined using VinesQL, a simple query language that finds systems based on their machine attributes. A "Mac OS X Lion" service might be defined as: platform is 'mac_os_x' and platform_version starts with '10.7'. As machines update to Lion, they will join this service automatically and may be managed as one group.
Additional documentation can be found at www.getvines.org.
$ gem install vines-services
$ vines-services init wonderland.lit
$ cd wonderland.lit && vines-services start
Vines Services requires Ruby 1.9.3 or better. Instructions for installing the needed OS packages, as well as Ruby itself, are available at http://www.getvines.org/ruby.
$ script/bootstrap
$ script/tests
$ script/server
- David Graham david@negativecode.com
Vines Services is released under the MIT license. Check the LICENSE file for details.