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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Chef
Configuration management tool which uses a pure-Ruby, domain-specific language (DSL) for writing system configuration recipes. Supports Linux, UNIX, Windows, and AIX as first-class citizens for management.
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ConDep
ConDep is a open source infrastructure configuration and deployment DSL (Domain Specific Language) specifically targeted to (but not limited to) the Windows Server platform. If your familiar with tools like Chef and Puppet, ConDep does very much the same, but with native support for Windows.
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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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PowerShell Desired State Configuration
DSC is a new management platform in Windows PowerShell that enables deploying and managing configuration data for software services and managing the environment in which these services run.
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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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