> I can't speak for Chef/Puppet but I tried in the past to incorporate Fabric into my workflow but I couldn't find a fabfile that worked out of the box [...] Y

> I can't speak for Chef/Puppet but I tried in the past to incorporate Fabric into my workflow but I couldn't find a fabfile that worked out of the box [...] You should think of a fabfile as a glorified shell script (or Makefile). So, instead of writing your own shell script that uploads your assets to your remote box, restarts Apache, etc. and then adjusting your script to run on multiple boxes, you can just write a simple Fabric task or two that does the same thing (with minimal configuration). Chef/Puppet are completely different tools than Fabric. In fact, the two are complementary[1]. I totally recommend Fabric to beginners because it builds on what you should know, i.e. how to write simple shell scripts, and it makes life easier. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkAXM36C7M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkAXM36C7M (DevOps for Python: Fabric + Chef)