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I haven't really looked into it, but how does that differ from using say, a shell script file?

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• DrJ 14y ago
  I might be saying this incorrectly, but... with Fabric you are writing shell scripts in python, so you can have people who doesn't know how to read complex(?) shell scripts be able to read/write/modify your deploy scripts.
• btipling 14y ago
  It's similar to using a shell script except you're using Python and have access to all of Python's modules and fabric is written with roles and remote management in mind so it makes tasks easier. I love it and even use it to deploy my jekyl blog.
• pekk 14y ago
  It makes it really easy to target ssh hosts and tell them to do things remotely, while also doing things locally, in one or more scripts. Writing the functionality of Fabric in shell would take you a long time and give you something which was buggy and inflexible. Someone else wrote it in Python for you. There's no good reason to write it in shell.