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napalm-automation / napalm-salt

Modules for event-driven network automation and orchestration using Salt
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One salt-proxy for each host? #51

Closed kheide closed 5 years ago

kheide commented 5 years ago

Have I understood it correctly that you’ll have one salt-proxy running for each device you want to utilize napalm against? That seems a bit rough say in a network of 2-3000 devices managed.

mirceaulinic commented 5 years ago

Hi @kheide. Your understanding is correct: you need as many Proxy Minion as devices to manage. I assume you not are planning to manage these processes manually (the same goes with any process, whatever its nature would be)... in that case, managing 1 process or thousands becomes equally simple, as I tried to explain in https://mirceaulinic.net/2018-09-27-network-automation-at-scale/. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Additionally, I'm also working on an alternative "proxyless" implementation (almost ready, will write up about it soon-ish) which only requires you to have just one single process, the Salt Master and nothing else. Hope this helps! :-)

kheide commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the reply. I'm not concerned about the managability for the proxies, but rahter the resources it would consume and the risk of something going wrong.

Do you have a timeframe on the proxyless implementation? Or have it in a branch somewhere?