Ansible is really easy to get started. It's always as obvious how to split larger codebases in abstractions (as compared to Chef, Puppet etc), but firing away j

Ansible is really easy to get started. It's always as obvious how to split larger codebases in abstractions (as compared to Chef, Puppet etc), but firing away jobs at a group of named hosts is simple. An even simpler tool is Python Fabric, which is closer to something like Expect (but in Python and over SSH).