Ask Manta is a job runner for Joyent's Manta cloud storage and map-reduce service. Like Joyent's own mjob
, but higher-level. Uploads dependencies, tracks running jobs, returns any errors and so on.
Ask Manta is available on the commandline: the askmanta
command (just ask manta). Run askmanta -h
to get an idea of what subcommands are available.
Ask Manta job definitions are YAML files will look reasonably familiar if you've used Manta step definitions before.