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Capistrano vs Juju: 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 Juju? Ubuntu Cloud brings freedom to the clouds. Juju is an open source, application and service modelling tool from Ubuntu that helps you deploy, manage and scale your applications on any cloud.
Capistrano and Juju belong to "Server Configuration and Automation" category of the tech stack.
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, Juju provides the following key features:
- Consistent naming
- Tagging
- Ability to add user-controlled tags to created instances
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.
Pros of Capistrano
- Automated deployment with several custom recipes121
- Simple63
- Ruby23
- Release-folders with symlinks11
- Multistage deployment9
- Cryptic syntax2
- Integrated rollback2
- Supports aws1