My co-founder and I looked at systems like Chef or Puppet, but decided instead to build our own using command line actions triggered by Fabric scripts (it's lik

My co-founder and I looked at systems like Chef or Puppet, but decided instead to build our own using command line actions triggered by Fabric scripts (it's like a Python version of Bash). These scripts can build us a new sandbox (or our entire server) on demand. We have a simple web interface to trigger them. We use Github post-update hooks deploy code to the server after every change to the master branch. Later we'll probably integrate a Travis CI server and other fancy tools, but for now this simple setup works.