Pabawi announcement

Author: alvagante

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+title: Announcing Pabawi, a web frontend to classic infrastructure
+---
+
+Is there still space in AI and Cloud native days, for a new tool to manage classic infrastructures, basic on physical or virtual servers?
+
+If you handle good old servers, and use Puppet, Bolt or Ansible to configure and manage them, then the answer might be yes, and we may have a nice tool for you.
+
+**Pabawi** is a new, moderm, sleek web frontend to inventory your systems, check they configuration management status, and run actions on them.
+
+Version 0.4.0, just released after a few weeks of AI based coding, has integrations with Bolt, Hiera, PuppetDB and PuppetServer.
+
+Current version is expected to be run by a Puppet developer / user on her/his localhost, featuring:
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+- **Multi-Source Inventory**: View and manage nodes from Bolt inventory and PuppetDB
+- **Command Execution**: Run ad-hoc commands on remote nodes with whitelist security
+- **Task Execution**: Execute Bolt tasks with automatic parameter support
+- **Puppet Integration**: Trigger Puppet agent runs with full configuration control
+- **Package Management**: Install and manage packages across your infrastructure
+- **Execution History**: Track all operations with detailed results and re-execution capability
+- **Dynamic Inventory**: Automatically discover nodes from PuppetDB
+- **Node Facts**: View comprehensive system information from Puppet agents
+- **Puppet Reports**: Browse detailed Puppet run reports with metrics and resource changes
+- **Catalog Inspection**: Examine compiled Puppet catalogs and resource relationships
+- **Event Tracking**: Monitor individual resource changes and failures over time
+- **PQL Queries**: Filter nodes using PuppetDB Query Language
+- **Hiera Data Browser**: Explore hierarchical configuration data and key usage analysis
+- **Puppet code analysys**: Analyses Puppet code base, reporting class usage, lint issues, outdated modules in Puppetfile
+
+
+Ansible and other tools integrations are planned for future versions.
+
+Check the [git repopsitory](https://github.com/example42/pabawi.git) for installation instructions and details.
+
+## Screenshots
+
+Here some screenshots, from a test setup with few nodes. The interface adapts well and is still fast on larger setups (currently tested with infrastructures up to 350 nodes).
+
+### Inventory and Node Management
+
+![Inventory Page](/img/posts/screenshots/inventory.png){:height="50%" width="50%"}
+
+*Node inventory with multi-source support and node detail interface for operations*
+
+### Task Execution and Reports
+
+![Task Execution](/img/posts/screenshots/task-execution.png){:height="50%" width="50%"}
+
+*Bolt task execution interface and Puppet run reports with detailed metrics*
+
+### Executions Tracking
+
+![Executions List](/img/posts/screenshots/executions-list.png){:height="50%" width="50%"}
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+*Execution history with filtering and detailed execution results with re-run capabilities*
+
+### Node Details
+
+![Node Detail](/img/posts/screenshots/node-detail-age.png){:height="50%" width="50%"}
+
+*Node detail page with access to facts, reports, events, managed resources and other useful info*
+
+
+## Special launch free installation service
+
+Pabawi is easy to integrate in your existing Puppet / Bolt infrastructure and has contextual setup instructions for each integration, but if you want help in trying it in your infrastructure, example42 offers a **free installation service**, no strings attached.
+
+In a shared screen call we can setup Pabawi with you, either using its container image or via npm.
+
+We want to test and validate it in different conditions, collecting users feedback and suggestions.
+
+Just contact me on [LinkedIN](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrofranceschi/) for planning a call: half an hour should be enought to set it up and see how it works.
+
+Alessandro Franceschi