Frequently Asked Questions — Documentation — Puppet Labs. Fabric — Fabric 1.5.1 documentation. Fabric: the Hassle-free Build Tool. When it comes to software development, a pet peeve of mine is build automation.
Or rather the widespread lack of one. There are far too many projects that have unpredictable and shaky deployments that rely on manual intervention by a "skilled" professional. That gave us the famous "But it works on my machine" line. Cuisine: the Lightweight Chef/Puppet Alternative. Everyone keeps telling us that we should automate our server installations.
And they are right about that. We are past the 90's and we don't work on a single computer anymore. I for one spend time on my workstation, my laptop and numerous physical and virtual servers. In the beginning I used to manually perform all software installations and updates, but things quickly got out of hand. As soon as you have more than one machine that needs managing you start running into issues like updating software, making sure everything runs the same versions of all packages that you need, etc.
Cuisine/README.rst at master · sebastien/cuisine. Configuration Management.