create a local connection helper

Signed-off-by: Alfredo Deza <alfredo.deza@inktank.com>

diff --git a/ceph_deploy/connection.py b/ceph_deploy/connection.py
index f43bf94b90028f06f6645c7225df603388feada9..b88c1ac62aecf54e433eb60843f8286c743d6ef2 100644 (file)
--- a/ceph_deploy/connection.py
+++ b/ceph_deploy/connection.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import getpass
+import socket
 from ceph_deploy.lib.remoto import Connection
 
 
@@ -31,6 +32,20 @@ def get_connection(hostname, username, logger, threads=5, use_sudo=None):
         raise RuntimeError(msg + errors)
 
 
+def get_local_connection(logger, use_sudo=False):
+    """
+    Helper for local connections that are sometimes needed to operate
+    on local hosts
+    """
+    return get_connection(
+        socket.gethostname(),  # cannot rely on 'localhost' here
+        None,
+        logger=logger,
+        threads=1,
+        use_sudo=use_sudo
+    )
+
+
 def needs_sudo():
     if getpass.getuser() == 'root':
         return False