There's also cdist which is python and shell-script based - does not even need python on the target machine, only ssh and a posix shell. check it out: http://w

There's also cdist which is python and shell-script based - does not even need python on the target machine, only ssh and a posix shell. check it out: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ disclaimer: I work with the author, but not actually on the cdist codebase (not enough to brag about, anyway)