[BangPypers] Interesting library

[Senthil Kumaran]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:48:04PM +0530, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> >> Came across this interesting library for sys-ad stuffs.
> >>
> >> http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.2.2/index.html
> >>
> >
> > Isn't paramiko enough for most remote scripting tasks ?
> 
> fabric is an abstraction over paramiko that's a lot more "domain
> specific" than just an ssh connection.
> 
> It's similar to make in invocation. You say things like "fab deploy"
> "fab rollback" etc. 

Under lot of circumstances, I found wrapping ssh (with it's zillion
options) far more flexible than using the libraries for remote
scripting. This is applicable to even multi-threaded servers.

I for one, yet to stumble upon a case where the above wrapper would
fail.

Thanks.
Senthil