Roadmap

This Roadmap is subject to change.

0.3

• Run commands directly from command line [done]

• Serverranges (group "backend" => "be[01..40]";) [done]

• rsync interface [done]

• ability to call tasks from other tasks [done]

• command to create a default skeleton Rexfile for your project. [done]

• Logging to syslog or file [done]

• Debug Mode [done]

• RPM Packages for CentOS, Fedora and OpenSuSE.

0.4

• Package Support for some major linux distributions (Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/Fedora, SuSE)

  For example:

  install package => "apache2" => {
     ensure => 'installed',
     version => '>2.2.15',
  };

  Or "installing" a file:

  install file => "/etc/apache2/httpd.conf" => {
     source    => "https://my-file-server/etc/apache2/httpd.conf",
     on_change => service restart => "apache2"
  };

• Support for Packagerepositories (apt, yum)

  For example:

  repository add => "gitco" => {
     url => 'http://www.gitco.de/linux/x86_64/debian',
  };
  
  repository remove => "gitco";

• Service Management (init-scripts)

  For example:

  service restart => "apache2";
  
  service stop => "apache2";
  
  service status => "apache2";
  
  if( service( status => "apache2" ) == $NOT_RUNNING ) {
     service start => "apache2";
  }

Ideas

• Webinterface

• Command execution over a publish/subscribe service or over IRC.

• Windows support

• Database management

  • Update DDL

  • Rollback DDL

  • Manage Users

  • Manage Permissions

• Subversion and GIT support (will be a separate module)

• Add an API to integrate Rex in your own projects

• Interface to File download/upload via http(s)