Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Jun 24 09:55:27 EDT 2013


On 24/06/2013 13:50, Roy Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
Snakeskin? Oh, I see that's already taken. :-(



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