>> On 24 July 2014 22:31, Paul Makepeace <pa...@paulm.com> wrote: >>> >>> capistrano is a (the?) winner for sure. >>
I've used Capistrano a bit - it's ok but too much magic for my liking (and in general I'm a big fan of the Ruby ecosystem). Fabric is a more sensible alternative IMO (you might find http://www.slideshare.net/panopticdev/fabric-a-capistrano-alternative useful). However, I would urge you to spend a day each investigating Ansible & SaltStack, the latter in salt-ssh mode if you want to make a direct comparison. Both of the aforementioned tools do ad-hoc remote execution, task orchestration and configuration management. FWIW I spent 3 days last week evaluating orchestration tools for $WORK last week, looking at dsh, Capistrano, Fabric, MCollective (covered that in one sentence - it's way heavy), Ansible & SaltStack. I liked both Ansible & SaltStack but concluded that the former was the best for the project in question because it was easier to get started with and it came with a lot of modules that were useful to us out of the box. HTH. -Ben