Auto Scripts

Generate and run bash scripts for managing your remote servers with controlled flags and defaults

• Written in Golang
• Creates configuration folder in ~/.auto-scripts
• Assumes folder from where auto-scripts is called is named with remote server FQDN
• Assumes SSH available through keys (no passwords)
• config.yaml sets default values
• create further templates which are stored in templates folder and reference in config.yaml
• Default scripts use rsync to synchronise directories and files
• Auto-backups are taken of changed files when getting or pushing

Default Command Types with precreated templates

1. Pull - pulls config or files from remote server
2. Push - pushes config or files to remote server
3. Local - local bash command execution
4. Remote - remote bash command execution
5. Manage - remote execution of systemctl

Libraries

• Viper for reading yaml config file (github.com/spf13/viper)
• Urfave Cli for calling the bash scripts with flags and defaults (github.com/urfave/cli)

Install

1. Create the config folder and templates

mkdir ~/.auto-scripts
cp templates ~/.auto-scripts

2. Get the prerequisite libraries for the build

go get github.com/spf13/viper
go get github.com/urfave/cli

3. Build the executable

go build auto-scripts.go

4. Copy to bin library

sudo cp auto-scripts /usr/local/bin/.

Usage

auto-scripts -h             #full help
auto-scripts get -h         #get help
auto-scripts push -h        #push help
auto-scripts manage -h      #manage help
auto-scripts remote -h      #remote help
auto-scripts local -h       #local help