Overview

Squirrel Servers Manager (SSM) is backend and front-end software focused on configuration and Docker management. Its goal is to be simple to use, yet offer depth of customization.

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Automagic

Once a device is added, SSM will automagically:

• Detect downtimes
• Retrieve hardware key usage and software versions
• Pull running containers and Docker elements
• Detect container image updates
• Allow you to deploy & manage containers on your devices
• Allow you to run playbooks for configuration management

Schematic Overview

Press enter or space to select a node. You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around. You can then use the arrow keys to move the node around, press delete to remove it and press escape to cancel.

Press enter or space to select an edge. You can then press delete to remove it or press escape to cancel.

SSH based

• Connections from SSM 🐿️ to your devices 🌰🌰🌰 run through SSH.
• Credentials are encrypted using Ansible Vault.

Agent (Recommended)

SSM is agent-based. To harness its full power, you must install a Node.js-based agent on all your devices, either via the UI or manually.

Note

The SSM agent is not mandatory; you can manually add devices without the agent (see Unmanaged Devices).

The agent allows:

• System information retrieval (OS & package versions; hardware details)
• Statistics gathering (CPU, memory usage)
• Downtime detection
• IP address update