[rancid] Simple web-frontend for rancid files?

[Andrew Biddle]

I just installed rancid and found WebSVN to front-end it. (About 5 years
ago this is the setup I used, so it's what I'm sort of familiar with.) I
have rancid working, but I need a better front-end. WebSVN is a little
clunky (perhaps it's the way I've built it?) and doesn't have a simple way
to just download a file. It does a good job of displaying configs and
comparing two versions. But it I want to copy the file locally, I'm copy
and pasting... It also appears to be a dropped project, so it doesn't look
like I should ever expect improvements.

Anything better out there? I can switch over to git if there's a better
interface in that direction. The front-end needs to be web-based so that
I can just point people to a URL. It should have a means to compare
various revisions... and of course a means to pull the files down to your
local system. It doesn't need to support any sort of push from client to
repository since that's something that I only want rancid doing...

Thought? What are you all using?

Thanks in advance!

[Gauthier, Chris]

I loved CVSweb in previous installations. Now that I use Git for the VCS, there really is no “nice” and simple implementation (like CVSweb is). I’m open to suggestions, as I do have to follow KISS for some of my colleagues who are not Linux experts (nor should they necessarily need to be).

--Chris



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Subject: [rancid] Simple web-frontend for rancid files?

I just installed rancid and found WebSVN to front-end it. (About 5 years ago this is the setup I used, so it's what I'm sort of familiar with.) I have rancid working, but I need a better front-end. WebSVN is a little clunky (perhaps it's the way I've built it?) and doesn't have a simple way to just download a file. It does a good job of displaying configs and comparing two versions. But it I want to copy the file locally, I'm copy and pasting... It also appears to be a dropped project, so it doesn't look like I should ever expect improvements.

Anything better out there? I can switch over to git if there's a better interface in that direction. The front-end needs to be web-based so that I can just point people to a URL. It should have a means to compare various revisions... and of course a means to pull the files down to your local system. It doesn't need to support any sort of push from client to repository since that's something that I only want rancid doing...

Thought? What are you all using?

Thanks in advance!

[Eric W. Bates]

We have a copy of Gitlab CE which we use for a lot of git repositories.
It's got a nice front end. So we do a git push from RANCiD to Gitlab
every time RANCiD commits. I stole this idea from the book: "5 Unsung
Tools of DevOps"

We already use ssh public key authentication on most of our switching
gear; so the RANCiD user (rancid) already has keys set up. We added an
account for rancid on gitlab and added its public key for authentication.

- set up a repository on gitlab writable by your RANCiD user
- add the gitlab repository URL as a second remote so your remotes look
something like:

# git remote -v
gitlab ***@gitlab.foobar.com:cns/RANCiD.git (fetch)
gitlab ***@gitlab.foobar.com:cns/RANCiD.git (push)
origin /usr/local/rancid3/var/gitroot/cns (fetch)
origin /usr/local/rancid3/var/gitroot/cns (push)

- add a post-commit hook to the repository on RANCiD such that it pushes
to gitlab:

# cat .git/hooks/post-commit
#!/bin/sh
# this just pushes a copy of this repo to gitlab everytime there's a commit
/usr/bin/git push gitlab

It's a little elaborate, but we had Gitlab already.
I also want to add another git push to our Observium server.

On 10/9/18 2:22 PM, Gauthier, Chris wrote:
> I loved CVSweb in previous installations.  Now that I use Git for the
> VCS, there really is no “nice” and simple implementation (like CVSweb
> is).  I’m open to suggestions, as I do have to follow KISS for some of
> my colleagues who are not Linux experts (nor should they necessarily
> need to be).
>
> --Chris
>
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> *Subject: *[rancid] Simple web-frontend for rancid files?
>
> I just installed rancid and found WebSVN to front-end it.   (About 5
> years ago this is the setup I used, so it's what I'm sort of familiar
> with.)   I have rancid working, but I need a better front-end.  WebSVN
> is a little clunky (perhaps it's the way I've built it?) and doesn't
> have a simple way to just download a file.  It does a good job of
> displaying configs and comparing two versions.  But it I want to copy
> the file locally, I'm copy and pasting...  It also appears to be a
> dropped project, so it doesn't look like I should ever expect improvements.
>
> Anything better out there?   I can switch over to git if there's a
> better interface in that direction.   The front-end needs to be
> web-based so that I can just point people to a URL.   It should have a
> means to compare various revisions...   and of course a means to pull
> the files down to your local system.   It doesn't need to support any
> sort of push from client to repository since that's something that I
> only want rancid doing...
>
> Thought?   What are you all using?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
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[heasley]

Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Eric W. Bates:
> - add a post-commit hook to the repository on RANCiD such that it pushes
> to gitlab:

that should not be necessary, if the remote is added to the origin.

http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2018-August/010348.html

[Andrew Biddle]

I ended up switching over to git and using GitList.

Send like it has a nice interface and does mostly what I need.

Thanks everyone.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:36 AM heasley <***@shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Eric W. Bates:
> > - add a post-commit hook to the repository on RANCiD such that it pushes
> > to gitlab:
>
> that should not be necessary, if the remote is added to the origin.
>
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[Daniel Schmidt]

Two Cents:
LibreNMS generates my router.db but kept wigging out & deleting everything
out of Rancid. Hence, I switched back to CVS and CVSWeb. Hideous 70's
orange, but I got my attic back - perfectly happy with it.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:34 PM Andrew Biddle <***@the-space.net> wrote:

> I ended up switching over to git and using GitList.
>
> Send like it has a nice interface and does mostly what I need.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 8:36 AM heasley <***@shrubbery.net> wrote:
>
>> Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Eric W. Bates:
>> > - add a post-commit hook to the repository on RANCiD such that it
>> pushes
>> > to gitlab:
>>
>> that should not be necessary, if the remote is added to the origin.
>>
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[Ni Ne]

I recently converted to git and installed gitweb running under Apache. Pretty easy to setup. It's not what I would call great or pretty. The only real gripe I have is drilling into the configs\ folder is a bit clunky. But all we need is a WebUI to make config diffs easier, for our TAC staff.

I made another thread the other week about how to hide the extra CVS\ directories when using it, if you do go that route.