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Capistrano vs CFEngine: What are the differences?

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; CFEngine: IT Automation at WebScale. It is an IT infrastructure automation and Continuous Operations framework that helps engineers, system administrators and other stakeholders in an IT organization manage IT infrastructure while ensuring service levels and compliance.

Capistrano belongs to "Server Configuration and Automation" category of the tech stack, while CFEngine can be primarily classified under "Compliance".

Capistrano is an open source tool with 11.1K GitHub stars and 1.72K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capistrano's open source repository on GitHub.

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    Automated deployment with several custom recipes
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    Simple
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    Ruby
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    Release-folders with symlinks
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    Multistage deployment
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    Cryptic syntax
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    Integrated rollback
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    Supports aws
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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 CFEngine?

    It is an IT infrastructure automation and Continuous Operations framework that helps engineers, system administrators and other stakeholders in an IT organization manage IT infrastructure while ensuring service levels and compliance

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