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I want to say that prgmr.com used (uses?) something like this for out of band access to VMs for serial console access or reboots, etc [0]. It certainly can be a powerful tool to give someone limited access to infrastructure.

I swear I read about this in a blog post, but that was many years ago and I couldn't quickly find it.

[0] https://wiki.prgmr.com/mediawiki/index.php/Management_Consol...

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We still do this, though the implementation has had a complete rewrite. It's very accessible.

What do you mean by "very accessible"? Are you referring to the design and implementation of this interaction technique? Or the accessibility of the UI?

Probably meaning the amount of access you get to configure your VM. I’ve never had a need for one from them, but the amount of configuration they describe in their documentation from an SSH/CLI to your VM is pretty comprehensive. It’s a slick way to avoid the overhead and infrastructure needed to support a big web GUI.

You can pretty much see the entire interface from the link above.

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