Overview¶

All interactions with servers in the Bcome ecosystem are over SSH.

It’s a very good idea to have SSH keys in place on the servers with which you’re going to interact.

Bcome wil let you -

execute arbitrary commands on servers or groups of servers (either via the Bcome shell, or directly from your terminal).
enter an interactive REPL style mode for command execution against individual or groups of servers
write orchestration scripts
SSH directly into your servers.
add in many different sets of SSH credentials, allowing you to apply different connection mechanisms to different namespaces
work with servers with different connection credentials all at the same time
work with servers hosted in different cloud accounts, all at the same time
re-use Bcome’s SSH layer for integration with other frameworks

To enable all this you must first configure Bcome for SSH.

Before you begin¶

Make sure you understand how namespacing works in Bcome and have tried a few examples: Overview

It’s also worth taking a look at how to use ping so that you can understand how to verify your configuration: Testing connections