I use fabric for deployment, testing, log maintenance, database backups. For almost everything on remote machines.
Learning curve is rather not steep.
Learning curve is rather not steep.
If you haven't used fabric, give it a try. It's an extremely simple API for performing remote management, deployment, etc.
I've tried numerous tools but nothing compares to fabric. It is just so easy and it always works. I can't imagine not seeing a fabfile.py in my project's deploy/ dir anymore, it just wouldn't be right.