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Capistrano vs Centmin Mod: What are the differences?

What is Capistrano? A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby. Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.

What is Centmin Mod? A set of open source Linux software. It is a set of open source Linux software which are together form the platform (web stack) where a web site's files (text, CSS files, javascript, web fonts, videos and images) and data can be served to a visitor.

Capistrano and Centmin Mod can be categorized as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.

Some of the features offered by Capistrano are:

  • Reliably deploy web application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set
  • Automate audits of any number of machines (checking login logs, enumerating uptimes, and/or applying security patches)
  • Script arbitrary workflows over SSH

On the other hand, Centmin Mod provides the following key features:

  • Free SSL certificates via Letsencrypt
  • Nginx Brotli Compression
  • KernelCare integration

Capistrano and Centmin Mod are both open source tools. It seems that Capistrano with 11.2K GitHub stars and 1.72K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Centmin Mod with 411 GitHub stars and 120 GitHub forks.

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    Automated deployment with several custom recipes
  • 63
    Simple
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    Ruby
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    Release-folders with symlinks
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    Multistage deployment
  • 2
    Cryptic syntax
  • 2
    Integrated rollback
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    What is Capistrano?

    Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows.

    What is Centmin Mod?

    It is a set of open source Linux software which are together form the platform (web stack) where a web site's files (text, CSS files, javascript, web fonts, videos and images) and data can be served to a visitor.

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