Learning MCollective

Take the Strings Now

Now we are at the end. I have taught you everything I know about MCollective. You have the strings in your hands now, and you have the knowledge necessary to make your marionettes—er, I mean servers—dance.

You may have skipped through some sections of this book. That’s OK; this book was meant to be something you could take a bit from, then come back again later to. I do hope you read about the security considerations of the default installation in Chapter 13. If not, run back and read that right now.

Believe it or not, your journey is just beginning. As you become more familiar and comfortable using MCollective, you will find more and more ways to use it. The people at nearly every site I have installed MCollective at spent time wondering how they would use it. In less than a year, they have all expressed to me that they have no idea how they ever got along without it.

I fully expect you to be one of those advocates. I look forward to hearing how you use MCollective and what unimagined new functionality you’ve implemented for your team.