The Secure Shell Protocol (SSH) is commonly used to remotely manage Unix systems. SSH was originally invented as a secure alternative to the telnet command but soon became the de facto remote management tool.
Even systems that use custom agents to manage a server fleet, such as Salt, are often bootstrapped with SSH to install the custom agents. When a system is described as agent-less, as, for example, Ansible is, it usually means that it uses SSH as its underlying management protocol.
The Paramiko library implements an SSH client. This allows automating ...
