I have been using cluster ssh on and off for some time now but I have never written about it. So first, let me tell you what my definition of it is……a huge time saver for multiple like tasks that need completed across many servers or systems.
As an example, lets say a critical update comes in and it affects 25 web servers, a lot of people will log into each web server, perform the update, log out, go to the next one, etc until completed. That’s a huge waste of time….assuming it takes 5 minutes to log in, run the update, log out, log into the next one….that is 25 x 5 or roughly 125 minutes, slightly more than 2 hours.

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