arturhoo

I always thought that Hashicorp would someday fill this void with their polished products and straightforward community and monetization strategies, especially through consul [0]. I hope it can polish the rough edges while being incubated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

PS.: I've prepared an Ansible role for prometheus for those interested, albeit outdated [1]

Nonetheless, it is important to distinguish the need to communicate between programs and the need to programmatically run a piece of software like ffmpeg and getting its output.

For the seconds case, especially in more complex architectures, where you need "interact with software written in another language" it makes sense to explicitly separate this interaction, for example through a broker [0]. In the end, all you need is a way to communicate from Program A that Program B can do some sort of job, and this can be a simple string pointing to a raw video file in a storage like S3, not necessarily the raw file.