More help getting started with fabric, please.

[sscb]

   I'm just getting started with Fabric. The examples in the documentation demonstrate child containers, but I have containers on separate machines.  Is there more complete documentation for bootstrapping such a configuration?  Perhaps a textbook or reference manual?

[stlewis]

There's really two main options.  You can either install the containers manually on each host and then use fabric:join to connect them to your existing fabric.  Or, from your fabric you can use container-create-ssh to push installations to the remote nodes.  Docs on container-create-ssh are here -> https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/JBoss_Fuse/6.0/html/Console_Reference/files/ConsoleFabricContainerCreateSsh.html.  Also note that the Management Console also provides a UI for creating containers via SSH as well.

[sscb]

Thank you for the reply.  I understand each of the commands from the man pages, per se, and even the highly trivialized examples.  But looking at these and understanding how a fabric is built and works in a non-trivial, deployed system is like trying to understand an impressionist painting by looking at individual brush strokes.