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 _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
