Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Mon Jun 24 08:50:14 EDT 2013


In article <8b0d8931-cf02-4df4-8f17-a47ddd279d65 at googlegroups.com>,
 jonathan.slenders at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server 
> deployments?
> 
> It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
> It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written in 
> Python.
> 
> Key points are that it uses Python, but is still very declarative and 
> supports introspection. It supports parallel deployments, and interactivity. 
> And it has a nice commandline shell with autocompletion for traversing the 
> deployment tree.
> 
> The repository:
> https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer/tree/refactoring-a-lot-v2
> 
> 
> Suggestions welcome :)
> Jonathan

Without forming any opinion on the software itself, the best advice I 
can offer is that naming puns are very popular.  If you're thinking of 
this as a fabric replacement, I would go with cloth, textile, material, 
gabardine, etc.



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