This post shows how to validate remote host is accessible.
There are many solutions out there on how to check that port on a remote host is accessible. But we needed a solution that would not hang up.
Previous post on this subject used os.fork and os.pipe to issue SSH in a child process. Instead, this post uses multiprocessing Process and Pipe to make it more platform agnostic. Per audience request, this post will …
This post shows how to create pipe channel over SSH. In particular, it demonstrates how to instantiate pipeline channel over SSH. We use this channel to pass an object to a remote system. This post shows two methods. One using …
Python's subprocess module makes it easy to invoke external commands on localhost. It can also use SSH to invoke commands on remote hosts.
The short answer is, very simple!
The longer answer is, subprocess.run, as follows: