Fabric is a lightweight Python library and command-line tool for streamlining SSH administration and deployment tasks. It provides a simple way to execute commands remotely or in parallel over SSH. The document outlines how Fabric can be used to create a simple deployment script in just a few lines of code by leveraging Fabric's SSH capabilities and API.

1. Fabric - A Lightweight Deployment Tool for Rubyists and Pythonists Alike Mike Leone - Panoptic Development, Inc

2. Why Fabric? Capistrano is elegant, powerful, extensible

3. but...

4. Too many features for small, simple projects

5. If you're using a DSL, the implementation language isn't so important

6. If you know Ruby, you already know enough Python for a simple fabric script!

7. Can you teach a Rubyist how Capistrano works in 3 minutes? Probably not!

8. Makes assumptions about your version control system

9. Release directory structure

10. The way your server restarts

11. In typical Ruby fashion, there's lots of ”magic”

12. Fabric is two things API for streamlining the use of SSH for app deployment or sys admin tasks

13. Command-line interface for calling Python methods

14. Example $ fab free_space

15. Write a deploy script in 3 minutes We want a script that will:

16. test our code

17. deploy it to our server in the /mnt directory

18. restart the web server