Fleets

Spinning up and managing individual instances is easy, however, what about several instances?

A bunch of instances, usually an odd number, 3 or greater, is known as a fleet. A fleet consists of a set of hosts, these can be used for parallel file transfers, scans, or parallel command execution

Starting a fleet

axiom-fleet <fleet> -i=<number of instances> -t=<expiry time in hours>
axiom-fleet jarvis -i=5 -t=3

The above command will start a fleet called "jarvis" with 5 instances and run for a total of 3 hours. On DigitalOcean, these instances will expire after 3 hours automatically (so that you don't forget!).

List instances

List your new running instances:

axiom-ls

Select your instances

To use your instances in parallel activities, you need to select them:

axiom-select 'jarvis*'

This will remember what instances are in your fleet, and put these in a temporary cache file in ~/.axiom/selected.conf

Execute a command on every instance

axiom-exec 'ifconfig eth0'

The above command will run this command on all instances, watch as you can concurrently execute single tasks.

Execute a command in the background on every instance

axiom-execb 'ifconfig eth0'

Upload a file to all instances in a fleet

axiom-scp 'wordlist.txt' 'jarvis*':'~/wordlist.txt'

This will in parallel upload the wordlist, this can be done for both uploads and downloads.