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Fabric vs Shipit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Fabric as "Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment". Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks It provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution.. On the other hand, Shipit is detailed as "Pure JavaScript deployment tool used by Ghost blogging platform". Shipit is an automation engine and a deployment tool written for node / iojs. Shipit was built to be a Capistrano alternative for people who don't know ruby, or who experienced some issues with it. If you want to write tasks in JavaScript and enjoy the node ecosystem, Shipit is also for you.
Fabric and Shipit can be categorized as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.
Fabric and Shipit are both open source tools. Fabric with 11.4K GitHub stars and 1.73K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Shipit with 4.71K GitHub stars and 199 GitHub forks.
Pros of Fabric
- Python23
- Simple21
- Low learning curve, from bash script to Python power5
- Installation feedback for Twitter App Cards5
- Easy on maintainance3
- Single config file3
- Installation? pip install fabric... Boom3
- Easy to add any type of job3
- Agentless3
- Easily automate any set system automation2
- Flexible1
- Crash Analytics1
- Backward compatibility1
- Remote sudo execution1
Pros of Shipit
- Simple2
- Great configuration2
- Agentless2