[Chicago] deployment tools

[Rodrigo Guzman]

> One of the problems with the remote management infrastructure
> frameworks is that they generally have non-trivial adoption curves and
> become Yet Another Thing to Maintain. If you just need to script some
> tasks, ssh will work perfectly well and has the upside of being very
> transparent.

In my experience, fabric has a very small learning curve and seems
very simple to maintain.   I tend to think of my fabric scripts as
executable notes rather than a "deployment framework".  Or put another
way, it is almost like writing bash scripts but with list
comprehensions and dictionaries.