Herd is developed on GitHub. Here you can find
If you have questions about Herd, or problems using it, please use the issue tracker. If you do not have a GitHub account and would prefer not to create one, you can contact the author at dennis@kaarsemaker.net.
If you’d like to make a code or documentation contribution, a pull request would be the best way. Before implementing big new features, or new providers, it would be nice to first open an issue to discuss them to make sure they fit in the design and goals of Herd.
The main guideline is to run make test and make test-integration before filing a pull request
and to clean up your commits so each individual commit makes sense on its own and passes tests.
Rebasing and fixing up PR branches is perfectly fine, and we prefer clean branches over not
rewriting history.
Part of make test is a linter to make sure that new code follows Go standards about code
formatting and code use. These tests must pass before we can merge any contribution.
Some questions pop up more often than others. Here are the most common ones
Herd tries to fill a different niche. It’s meant for troubleshooting, quickly gathering info and running one-off commands in environments of all sizes, from dozens to thousands of servers. It is not meant for configuration management, orchestration or deployments. You could build such things on top, but there are many excellent products already for these tasks.
Because Herd is not using your ssh client. Herd will read your OpenSSH configuration and use some settings, but not all parameters are supported.
No. Herd does not want access to your private key and enforces the use of an ssh agent.
Most likely because your SSH agent is not running, not forwarded or has not keys loaded. See the SSH agent documentation
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