DevOps in Python: Infrastructure as Python

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M. ZadkaDevOps in Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7996-0_9

9. Paramiko

Moshe Zadka¹  

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Belmont, CA, USA

 

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 ...