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Schema
======================

service:
  service_type: [user_service | public_service | internal_service]


Features to add
==========================

templates
--------------------

templates for nodes and services stored in leap_platform

commands:

    leap add-service   # menu of services, copies from the template
    leap add-node      # you pick a service among those enabled, then it copies template

deploy
---------------------

    leap bootstrap
    leap dryrun
    leap deploy

key management
-------------------------

    leap add-ssh-keypair
    leap add-x509-keypair

json validation
------------------------

json validation
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/kwalify/ruby/users-guide.html


useful liberaries
================================

notes to myself

user interaction
  gli -- http://davetron5000.github.com/gli/rdoc/classes/GLI/DSL.html
  sub -- https://github.com/37signals/sub
  readline
  highline  https://github.com/JEG2/highline/tree/master/examples
  terminal-tables
  rainbow
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9577718/what-ruby-libraries-should-i-use-for-building-a-console-based-application

testing
  aruba -- test for cli

help
  gem-man -- install man pages with gems
  ronn -- write man pages in markdown

push examples

  https://github.com/net-ssh/net-ssh
  https://github.com/seattlerb/rake-remote_task
    http://docs.seattlerb.org/rake-remote_task/
    https://github.com/seattlerb/rake-remote_task/blob/master/lib/rake/remote_task.rb
  calling rsync from ruby
    https://github.com/RichGuk/rrsync/blob/master/rrsync.rb
    http://rubyforge.org/projects/six-rsync/
  https://github.com/automateit/automateit
  http://www.jedi.be/blog/2009/11/17/shell-scripting-dsl-in-ruby/
  parallel shell
    https://github.com/delano/rye
    https://github.com/adamwiggins/rush

ssh keygen
  https://github.com/duritong/puppet-sshd/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/ssh_keygen.rb

invoke puppet
  https://github.com/davidwinter/sooty/blob/master/lib/sooty.rb


ssh
================================

http://mostlyobvio.us/2012/06/optimize-your-ssh-experience/

ssh certificate authority
----------------------------------

maybe wait off on this: "The certificate cert format seems to have changed between 5.5 and 6.0"

search for "ssh-keygen -s"

http://blog.habets.pp.se/2011/07/OpenSSH-certificates
http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2011/09/08/setting-up-certificate-authority-keys-with-openssh-version-5-4.aspx
http://serverfault.com/questions/264515/how-to-revoke-an-ssh-certificate-not-ssh-identity-file

agent forwarding
---------------------------------

http://lyte.id.au/2012/03/19/ssh-agent-forwarding-is-a-bug/

instead:

  home$ ssh -o 'ProxyCommand ssh you@hop1 nc %h %p' ssh you@hop2
  hop2$

known_hosts
----------------

man sshd, search for known_hosts
@revoked -- should we put revoked keys in known_hosts, and when/how...
@cert-authority -- should we use it?

ruby
---------------

ruby net::ssh

      def generate_key_fingerprint(key)
        blob = Net::SSH::Buffer.from(:key, key).to_s
        fingerprint = OpenSSL::Digest::MD5.hexdigest(blob).scan(/../).join(":")

        [blob, fingerprint]
      rescue ::Exception => e
        [nil, "(could not generate fingerprint: #{e.message})"]
      end

      def exchange_keys
        result = send_kexinit
        verify_server_key(result[:server_key])
        session_id = verify_signature(result)
        confirm_newkeys

        return { :session_id        => session_id,
                 :server_key        => result[:server_key],
                 :shared_secret     => result[:shared_secret],
                 :hashing_algorithm => digester }
      end

DNS
======================================

problem: we want to be able to refer to the nodes by hostname (in a variety of programs) without requiring an external dns server.

idea:

   simple lightweight ruby dns server -- https://github.com/ioquatix/rubydns
   another ruby dns server (eventmachine) -- https://github.com/nricciar/em-dns-server

   modify /etc/resolveconf/resolve.conf.d/tail with
     nameserver locahost
   maybe like this:
     resolveconf -a eth0.leap 'nameserver localhost'

   the problem is that there is probably already a resolving nameserver living at localhost.
   linux doesn't appear to have a way to let you specify the port number for dns lookups (unlike bsd). boo

   a few other possibilies:
   * alter /etc/hosts
   * alter dnsmasq to use additional /etc/hosts files (simple switch for this). dnsmasq is running on my desktop, although there is no /etc/dnsmasq.
   * write a libnss_ruby or something that would let you use a custom db for /etc/nsswitch.conf
     see http://uw714doc.sco.com/en/SEC_admin/nssover.html

ssh solution:

  ssh -l root -o "HostName=10.9.8.7" -o "HostKeyAlias=server_a" server_a
..


MISC
====================

http://skim.la/2012/01/16/rsa-public-key-interoperability-between-ruby-and-android/