Mitogen is a distributed programming library for Python. The Mitogen Extension for Ansible is a set of plug-ins for Ansible that enable it to operate via Mitogen, vastly improving Ansible's performance and enhancing its functional capability.

This project is to take the already-proven prototype and use it to deliver a thoroughly tested extension, with optional goals extending the baseline to significantly enhance Ansible's functionality. If the funding target is met, a first release is guaranteed for April. Help me make your life better, and prepare to enjoy Spring 2018 with a lot more free time.

Please read the associated blog post for the complete story.

Initial goal: 3 weeks (£7,800)

• Multi-threaded connection establishment
• Bulletproof and latency-free module importer
• Unit and integration tests
• Determine final list of supported Ansible releases and set up CI for each
• Security audit, including potential removal of cPickle

Stretch goal: 1 month (£12,000)

• Connection delegation
• Removal of remaining documented limitations except Windows
• su become method support

Stretch goal: 2 months (£24,000) — Deploy to Windows as easily as UNIX

• Windows connection support via WinRM
• Testing under Ansible's own integration tests
• Enhanced synchronize module to reuse Ansible's connections
• Flow control support for the fakessh component
• Faster message routing to support high throughput synchronize

Stretch goal: 3 months (£36,000) — Synchronize huge trees to thousand-node clusters in seconds from a laptop 3G connection.

• Topology-aware file distribution: sync files to thousands of nodes faster than rsync
• Asynchronous connect: connect to thousands of nodes in seconds
• Topology-aware Git pull
• Connection persistence: speed up re-runs during development and CI
• Generalized TCP/UNIX socket forwarding
• Reuse topology-aware file distribution to improve support for non-Python modules

Stretch goal: 4 months (£48,000) – Inversion of Control: when Ansible really means faster-than-light. Deploy to data centres on the other side of the world as quickly as to a local VM.

Stretch goal: 5 months (£56,000) — Mystery surprise: addition of a major new Ansible feature that will blow your mind and change your life.