clusterssh like behaviour via plugin

[ghost]

I use terminator a lot.
In some cases i have a list of servers which i pipe to xargs cssh. I would love a similar behaviour with terminator with multiple panes.

Before i found this repo i thought about writing a python wrapper which pastes a layout in the configuration file but i think this is not the correct attempt. I can imagine developing a plugin for this functionality which generates a layout and uses it.
But as far as know plugins support only interactions with the UI, correct?

A simple solution would be something like terminator --cssh <server1> <server2> <server3>, this way lists could be piped to xargs to pass it to termiantor. But plugins can't provide new arguments, correct?

Maybe there are different attempts which I don't see yet. I would be happy to help with this!

[mattrose]

One thing that you might be able to use, or maybe just give you some ideas is #213. The author is working on generating layouts from JSON files. As a former sysadmin I can definitely see the appeal. I'm not sure the plugin architecture is up to it, but it can also be extended, if we can come up with a good way.

[mattrose]

I'm gonna close this, I think you can do something with generating layouts on the command line and calling them from terminator now.