Abricot

Fast cloud command dispatcher tool with Redis pub/sub.

Abricot was built to run benchmarks on a large amount of machines.

How to use

On each slave:

$ abricot listen

On the master:

$ abricot exec echo hello

Specifying the redis server

Both the slaves and master accept the --redis argument (default is localhost). Example:

$ abricot listen --redis redis://redis-server:port/db

Running a job

To run a job, you may pass several arguments:

• -c CMD: Run your command through bash
• -f FILE: Run a script file, which will be uploaded. You may use arbitrary scripts with #!... in the header.
• -n NUM_WORKERS: Run the job on exactly NUM_WORKERS.

License

Abricot is released under LGPLv3