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Capistrano vs Webmin: 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; Webmin: *A web-based system configuration tool *. It is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. It removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files.

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

Capistrano and Webmin are both open source tools. Capistrano with 11.1K GitHub stars and 1.72K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Webmin with 1.04K GitHub stars and 307 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Capistrano
Pros of Webmin
  • 121
    Automated deployment with several custom recipes
  • 63
    Simple
  • 23
    Ruby
  • 11
    Release-folders with symlinks
  • 9
    Multistage deployment
  • 2
    Cryptic syntax
  • 2
    Integrated rollback
  • 1
    Supports aws
  • 3
    Review real-time resources (cpu, mem, stg, proc)
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Virtualmin
  • 2
    Free
  • 1
    DNS Zone Editor
  • 1
    Modify ports and usage
  • 1
    Extensible and flexible
  • 1
    Modify applications

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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 Webmin?

It is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. It removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files.

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