[zwischenzug]

I used pexpect as a base technology for ShutIt:

http://ianmiell.github.io/shutit/

it really is 95% of tcl's expect functionality, much easier to debug and understand. I'm grateful it exists, and it's much under-used I think.

[emmelaich]

Nice.

I have a somewhat similar tool but it doesn't do much besides check for password expiry and do password changes.

It uses pexpect but also multiprocessing and multiprocessing.Queue. I built most of it before we started using Ansible at work, but it is still useful in those places where Ansible is clumsy.

[zwischenzug]

Interesting - where is Ansible clumsy?

[emmelaich]

(just noticed this)

I was just sort of echoing your

    annoyed by the obfuscation and indirection of ...

Ansible's prime raison d'être is not remote execution but configuration management.

[rPawel]

It was great to see ShutIt during the last Docker London!

[zwischenzug]

Thanks! A previous similar talk is the first link here: https://www.youtube.com/user/ianmiell

[rPawel]

Thanks. Good luck Shutit and 2048 scores! :)