Parallel Remote Terminal

Excute the same command across multiple remote hosts in parallel.

Abstract

In an attempt to streamline my own development process across multiple distributions, PRT was created to make testing shell scripts and binaries much faster and more intuitive. PRT lets a user define arbitrary pools of remote hosts, making it simple to brick sets of remote hosts into any number of abstraction layers (For instance grouping all Debian based systems into a pool). PRT is written 100% in python3 and makes no external calls your hosts ssh package.

Install

To install PRT:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JustinTimperio/prt/master/build/install.sh | sudo bash

Once you have installed PRT, you will need to set up your connection pool files and remote access keys.

1. Run prt --key_gen to trigger the creation an RSA key that will be used to connect to the host in all your pools.
2. Create a yaml file containing an entry for each remote host in ~/.prt. You can find an example config here
3. Add your newly created ~/.prt/prt_rsa.pub key to each of your remote hosts ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

Usage

• -c, --command: Defines the command you want to run on each remote host.
• -p, --pool: Spesifies the connection pool you want run on. (~/.prt/your_pool.yaml)
• -k, --key_gen: Triggers the generation of a universal PRT RSA key.

Example Command: prt -p xe -c "neofetch"