Relationship between Ansible and REX proxy plugins

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@evgeni

What I think we’re missing (on the proxy side) is the split between “provider” (the thing that does the action: smart_proxy_ansible, smart_proxy_rex_ssh) and “transport” (the thing that’s only responsible for the transport: ssh) as both providers will end up doing ssh in one way or another (and rely on common configs, keys, etc).

But then again Ansible and REX-SSH are the only ones sharing a transport?

This is almost exactly the same conclusion some of us working on further pull provider discussions have come to and plan to share very soon. The pull provider proposal RFC would include the support of both the Shell and Ansible “providers” while using a different transport mechanism (MQTT + HTTP).