Documentation of the ioslaves suite

ioslaves is modualar, secure, and service-oriented hosting-machine management system for decentralised self-hosting.

• ioslavesd : main deamon, running on each machine
  • Service-oriented : systemd services, plain old deamons, plugin services
  • Modular : plugin services take advantage of ioslavesd features and hence do not have to re-implement control interface
  • Strong authentification with symectrical keys and permissions for each master, with a system of authorized key sending
  • Health monitoring (used by network control page), real-time logging (used by macgui)
  • Automatic shutdown of the machine
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• ioslaves-master
  • Control program for slaves with symetric key authentication methods :
    • Raw key storage
    • Arduino external key storage
  • macgui : usefull systray graphical interface
    • Slave status + token generation for the network control page
    • Realtime colored and selective logging
    • SSH/SSHFS quick profiles with automatic ssh service start/stop
• Network control page + ioslstatd : Network status and management master page
  • Real-time status with graphs via ioslstatd and websocket
  • Slaves/services/ports status and management; publicly-wakable machines…
  • Multiple factor authentication (dynamic password, token got with ioslaves-master via ioslavesd-tokgen…)
• ioslavesd-wake-gateway : just a dynslaves slave wake order forwarder service
• ioslavesd-xifnetdyndns : dynamic DNS system for slaves, this service running with NSD is contacted by ioslaves periodically to check for external IP change; also provides a dynamic SRV entries mechanism