mcorpc-agent-provider

Choria mcorpc Agent Provider

This is an Agent Provider for the Choria Server that provides compatability with The Marionette Collective (mcollective) Simple RPC system.

Agent Features:

• Agent DDLs represented in memory and loaded from JSON files
• Agents, Actions and Agent Metadata that maps to the same terminology and behavior as MCollective
• Auditing that is compatible with the Ruby based Choria auditing plugin
• A framework for writing new Agents in Go that can be compiled into the Choria Server (see the docs for more information on this.)
• Agents written in Go and compiled into the Choria Server:
  • choria_util - Utilities used to interrogate version information about the server
  • rpcutil - General RPC utilities like extracting facts and statistics, compatible with MCollective as far as possible
  • discovery - Agent used to assist broadcast based discovery
• A wrapper around the historical Ruby MCollective agent system that can run a MCollective agent in a sandbox without requiring the deprecated mcollectived daemon
• A fully compatible Go implementation of the action policy framework. In a future Choria release, this will become the default action policy implementation.

Client Features:

• A fully featured Go client to the MCollective RPC system that is compatible with Ruby and Go nodes
  • Broadcast discovery
  • RPC Requests with the usual features like batches, direct, broadcast and more

TODO

• Authorization system that matches the action policy feature
• Support limiting compiled in agents using the new Authorization feature above
• Ability to execute ruby data plugins during discovery to enable compound filters