I am looking for a way to push configuration from one central machine to several remote machines without the need to install anything on the remote machines.
The aim is to do something like you would find with tools like cfengine, but on a set of machines that don't have agents set up. This might actually be a good technique of setting up cfagent on a set of existing remote machines.
Best Answer
You can pass a script and have it execute ephemerally by piping it in and executing a shell.
e.g.
Naturally, the
"ls -l; echo 'Hello World'"part could be replaced with a bash script stored in a file on the local machine.e.g.
Cheers!