Stitching together a crazy sys admin world with Python

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Article from Issue 141/2012
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The Fabric Python library makes it extremely easy to create repeatable scripts of commands over SSH to any number of servers.

Fabric [1] is an amazing Python library that makes it easy to codify common system tasks into flexible recipes. Chef and Puppet are great tools for larger, more complicated environments, but they are often a lot of work for more simple setups. Anytime I find myself executing a series of commands together on a regular basis, I switch gears and build a Fabric task instead.

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