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by hunter2_ 1117 days ago
At the risk of an extreme facepalm moment given the {obvious danger, code smell, worst practice, etc.} I still feel compelled to ask: don't the languages already supported offer an execution gateway (like the backtick operator or shell_exec() in php) such that an extremely lightweight wrapper would allow this to run your bash scripts?
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Well, from the description I gathered the service was going to “TURN (existing) scripts INTO internal tools”. Not “provide a front-end to a framework where you write brand new code to integrate with your business logic”… The first mode seems to add a relatively large amount of value for relatively low effort given the management scripts that already exist. The second seems more like a framework only useful for processes you spend the effort to migrate. Was hoping to see a Rundeck competitor but got an Internal competitor instead?
Not to mention most of my bash scripts are just wrappers around calling some other binary executables
100% but I assume they are requesting first-class support.