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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by X-Istence on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @08:57AM (#5244250)
There is also Fabric [1] to allow management of remote servers using Python scripts.

[1] http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.5/

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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by mercurial on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @09:18AM (#5244360)
Fabric is a deployment tool, which makes it useful in many cases where something like Salt would be overkill, but is definitely not in the same category.
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Re:Getting started with Salt: a Puppet/Chef alternative buil... by lukes386 on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @10:02AM (#5244602)
Also cuisine[0], a more fully featured configuration management tools built on top of Fabric's lower level functions.

[0]: https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine

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