Welcome to Exosphere

Exosphere is a CLI and Text UI driven application that offers aggregated patch and security update reporting as well as basic system status across multiple Unix-like hosts over SSH.

Exosphere demo

Exosphere demo

It is targeted at small to medium sized networks.

It is meant to be simple to deploy and use, requiring no central server, agents or complex dependencies on remote hosts.

If you have SSH access to the hosts and your key pairs are loaded in an SSH agent, you are good to go!

Key Features

  • Rich interactive command line interface (CLI)

  • Text-based user interface (TUI) offering menus, tables and dashboards

  • Consistent view across different platforms and package managers

  • See everything in one spot, at a glance, without complex automation or enterprise solutions.

  • Does not require Python (or anything else) to be installed on remote systems

  • Parallel operations across hosts with optional SSH pipelining

  • Document-based reporting in HTML, text or markdown format

  • JSON output available for integration with other tools

Compatibility

  • Exosphere: Linux, BSDs, macOS, Windows (and more!)

  • Remote: Debian/Ubuntu-likes, RedHat-Likes, FreeBSD, OpenBSD

Note

For more details on supported platforms, see the Supported Remote Platforms page.

Exosphere is written in Python and abstracts away the technical details of collecting this information across platforms, allowing you to focus on management of your systems.

You can get started with Installation and then follow up with the Quickstart Guide to get an overview of how to use Exosphere.

The configuration reference is also available, alongside the API documentation if you wish to implement your own providers.

Getting Started

Using Exosphere

Administration

Support

Reference

Developer Documentation