Ansible vs Chef vs Fabric





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      Puppet Labs
      Puppet is&nbsp;an automated administrative engine for your Linux, Unix, and Windows systems and&nbsp;performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification.
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        How developers use Ansible, Chef, and Fabric
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        Cloudcraft uses AnsibleAnsible

        Ansible is the deployment tool for people who don't like deployment tools. It's close to scripting, doesn't pollute your servers with agents or centralized servers, and just makes immediate sense. The entire stack at is orchestrated by Ansible. What does that mean? Beyond the obvious of installing packages and configuring services, Ansible coordinates all the machines into a working deployment: It adds API servers to the loadbancer pool, opens ports on the DB server for the backend servers to connect, gracefully upgrades services in a rolling fashion for zero-downtime deployments etc. And it's so easy to use, it's easier to use than doing things by hand, meaning it's a deployment tool you'll actually use every time!

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        Pēteris Caune uses FabricFabric

        We use Fabric for automating deployment and maintenance tasks: bootstrapping and updating application servers (using the "rolling update" pattern), pulling logs from the servers, running maintenance commands.

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        Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) uses AnsibleAnsible

        We use Ansible to synchronize the few configuration-options we've taken on our CoreOS-Machines. This makes deployment even easier and the fact that it's Agentless made the decision even easier.

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        Bob P uses AnsibleAnsible

        Ansible is used in both the development and production deployment process. A playbook couple with a Vagrantfile, easy deploys a local virtual machine that will mirror the setup in production.

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        sapslaj uses AnsibleAnsible

        I use Ansible to manage the configuration between all of the different pieces of equipment, and because it's agentless I can even manage things like networking devices all from one repo.

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        Bùi Thanh uses AnsibleAnsible
        • Configuration management:
          • deploy/install all web/app environments
          • simple with Galaxy and playbooks.
        • No need any pre-installed agent on remote servers.
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        Goyoboard uses ChefChef

        Out custom recipes makes it simple for developers bootstrap process (using vagrant) and that same recipe is also the one that is used to prep instances

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        Alec Cunningham uses FabricFabric

        Automate everything! I have fabfiles for testing, bootstrapping, deployment, and building. Easy to customize and its pure python.

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        Zinc uses ChefChef

        We use Chef for our configuration management and our service discovery.

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        EverTrue uses ChefChef

        Configuration management for any services not provided by AWS.

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        Hund uses ChefChef

        Distributed application deployments and server configuration.

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        James Salas uses ChefChef

        Configuration and deployment of application

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        Undisclosed, Do Not Contact or Spam Please uses FabricFabric

        App beta deployment and crash logging.

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        Veggie Sailor uses FabricFabric

        Almost everything ;) Deployment etc

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        InstaGIS uses FabricFabric

        Command line deploys

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