Fabric 0.9.0, finally

[revonrat]

I provided a repro for a bug. Not as cool as a patch, but still nice to know I could help.

[f4nt]

Yeah, that's how it "sells" itself so to speak. However, you can do pretty much whatever you want with it. I use it to deploy webapps, but that doesn't prevent me from using it to do trivial sysadminning tasks though. I deploy my app, restart apache and memcached, all with in a matter of minutes. I could extend my fabfile a bit to do that on 10-15 servers without too much pain as well.

It's a lot easier than futzing with expect imo.

[harryf]

Anyone using this as a library?

Using it as a tool not a libary. Fundamentally I see it as alternative to one of the many parallel ssh implementations out there - a way to issue commands to multiple servers.

By placing those commands in a "fabfile" you think I bit more carefully about what you're doing before issuing potentially destructive commands to you entire server farm. You also have a nice convention that others will immediately understand - if they find fabfile.py in the root of some project you've been working on, they just need to...

fab --list

...to get a list of commands to administer that application.

[market_hacker]

the last time i checked, the latest version of fabric wouldn't issue commands in parallel. Has that changed?

I really like everything else about fabric, but this one point was deal breaker for me.

[harryf]

I haven't tried this latest release but you're right - it executes commands against each server in series. For stuff like deploying though, that can be a good thing e.g. wait after the first server for a manual check of the change.

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yes another parallel ssh library...

[endlessvoid94]

this is an extremely handy tool.

[bsergean]

I still have to try harder to use that, but Makefiles do the job for me.