inside-out-proxy

Inside Out HTTP Job Proxy

"Don't call us, we call you!"

(https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hollywood_principle)

Allows to stream jobs from a long polling server to the proxy, which turns them into outgoing HTTP Requests.

Proxy

Specific options:

inside_out_proxy --help

All options

inside_out_proxy --helpfull

Example:

inside_out_proxy --user=foo --password="$PW" --jobserver="https://..."

Testserver

Included is a test server which allows to check the correct working of the client.

inside_out_proxy_test_jobserver --help

shows its options.

Testrun

Periodic Jobs

This will start the testserver on localhost port 8089, returning jobs from playbook "prod":

inside_out_proxy_test_jobserver --playbook prod --loops=1000 --debug

Now we connect the proxy with default settings:

inside_out_proxy --debug

Speed Test

When we connect with user speed and a password which the testserver accepts, it will load the client with jobs for perf tests:

# server:
inside_out_proxy_test_jobserver --speed_user_password=foo --debug

# client:
inside_out_proxy --debug --user=speed --password=foo

DVCS URL: /scm/hg/AX/inside_out_proxy