Parallel SSH in Python

Question

I wonder what is the best way to handle parallel SSH connections in python. I need to open several SSH connections to keep in background and to feed commands in interactive or timed batch way. Is this possible to do it with the paramiko libraries? It would be nice not to spawn a different SSH process for each connection.

Thanks.

Answer 1

It might be worth checking out what options are available in Twisted. For example, the Twisted.Conch page reports:

http://twistedmatrix.com/users/z3p/files/conch-talk.html

Unlike OpenSSH, the Conch server does not fork a process for each incoming connection. Instead, it uses the Twisted reactor to multiplex the connections.