Boxen

Boxen automates the entire process of setting up a Mac development environment. It can clone your project, install toolchains, apply security policies, clone your dotfiles and much more.

     

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Capistrano

The Ruby equivalent of Fabric, Capistrano is a Ruby framework to configure and run deployment or system administration tasks on local or remote machines. It extends the Rake DSL to define tasks, and can group tasks by Roles.

     

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Fog

The Ruby Cloud API library. Provides a Ruby API for interacting and managing many cloud providers, such as spinning up new instances, terminating old ones, attaching storage, etc. Currently supports more than 20 providers, including EC2, Rackspace, Brightbox, etc.

     

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Mina

A Ruby Rake-like DSL for fast deployment and automation, similar to Capistrano but faster and lesser overhead, since it creates only a single SSH connection for a deploy

     

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Orc

A model driven orchestration tool for deployment of application clusters

     

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Pallet

A tool to provision and maintain servers across various cloud platforms as well as virtual machine platforms, without any dependencies. Provides cloud and operating system independence.

     

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Puppet

Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.

     

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Soloist

Soloist lets you quickly and easily converge Chef recipes using chef-solo.

     

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Vagrant

Vagrant is a cross platform tool to create, boot, configure and destroy development environments. It provides a simple configuration-based approach to take a base image, boot it up, provision it (using any other provisioners), SSH, port forward, and much more. It automates the process of booting up and configuring virtual machines. It supports various providers like VirtualBox, VMWare, AWS, LXC, etc.

     

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