This document provides examples of using Fabric, a Python library for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems/network administration tasks. Some key points:
- Fabric allows defining tasks that can be run remotely on SSH-accessible servers via simple Python functions decorated with @task.
- It supports running tasks selectively on hosts or roles. Dynamic host lists can be used by querying external data stores.
- Tasks can be composed together and executed sequentially or in parallel.
- Fabric integrates with tools like Django, handles SSH authentication, and provides utilities like file transfers, command line output formatting, and more.
- The examples demonstrate common patterns for application deployment, database migrations, static file management