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Edit: Please disregard my comment. Puppet does a lot more than simple deployment scripts. See http://www.puppetlabs.com/ for more information.

Can someone please explain the advantages of deploying with Puppet over Fabric.

(Fabric is a Python library for writing deployment scripts.)

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I added a paragraph to the article explaining the differences between imperative automation tools like Fabric and declerative configuration management tools like Puppet.

I'm pretty sure Puppet uses Fabric for its fundamental foundational layer. I want to get around to integrating it into my workflow - right now I just a lot of custom Fabric w/ rsync.

I'm pretty sure Puppet uses Fabric for its fundamental foundational layer.

Hmm, doesn't look like it:

  $ git clone https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
  $ cd puppet
  $ grep -r 'fabric' *; echo $?
  1

EDIT: Puppet is written in Ruby.

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