henchman

What is Henchman

Henchman is an orchestration and automation tool written in Golang, inspired by Ansible with support for custom transports and inventories.

Check out the wiki to learn more.

How Henchman Works

Henchman executes a plan (a collection of tasks) on a given set of machines. Currently henchman uses SSH as a transport to execute a plan on hosts specified in an inventory. It will be possible to use custom transports and custom inventory scripts in the future.

Building Henchman

• Install go here
• Clone this repo to $GOPATH/src/github.com/apigee
• If you have not done so, set export $PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
• go get github.com/tools/godep
• godep restore
• godep go build -o bin/henchman
  • If you are developing use godep go build -race -o bin/henchman
• Build modules find modules -name '*.go' | awk -F/ '{print "-o bin/modules/"$2"/"$2" "$0}' | xargs -l1 go build

Contributing

Just clone or fork from https://github.com/apigee/henchman and off you go! Fixing issues marked easy in the issue tracker is a great way to get started. Or you can help by creating more modules. Look at the modules section for more details.

Creating HenchmanErrors

HenchmanErrors can be created using the HenchErr(err, map[string]interface{}, "extension message") call. Creating a HenchmanError as opposed to a standard error allows the user to pass in extra information for logrus. Here are a few key things to note when creating a HenchErr:

• err - place any error in here
• map[string]interface{} - Place any information about the CURRENT function it's in. For example, plan information, task information, what machine it's on
• extension message - Is a string that is prefixed onto the base error message. This extension message should contain information about the function that produced the error. For example, if an err occurred while unmarshalling, the extension message would contain "While unmarshalling".