Welcome to rcontrol’s documentation!

rcontrol is a python library to execute commands on remote hosts via ssh. It is built using paramiko, and unlike fabric it provide easy ways to crontrol the order of execution for parallelisation.

• Tutorial
  • Executing a command on a remote host
  • Synchronizing commands
  • Executing local commands
  • Executing commands on multiple hosts
  • More on commands synchronisation
  • Copy files and directories between hosts

• API
  • Sessions
    • BaseSession
    • SshSession
    • LocalSession
    • SessionManager
  • Tasks
    • Abstract Task
    • CommandTask
    • SshExec
    • LocalExec
    • ThreadableTask
    • Task exceptions