1 Fabric is an incredible tool to automate administration of remote machines.
2 As Fabric's functions are rather low-level, you'll probably quickly see a need
3 for more high-level functions such as add/remove users and groups,
4 install/upgrade packages, etc.
6 Cuisine is a small set of functions that sit on top of Fabric, to abstract
7 common administration operations such as file/dir operations, user/group
8 creation, package install/upgrade, making it easier to write portable
9 administration and deployment scripts.
11 Cuisine's features are:
13 * Small, easy to read, a single file API:
14 <object>_<operation>() e.g. dir_exists(location) tells if there is a
15 remote directory at the given location.
16 * Covers file/dir operations, user/group operations, package operations
17 * Text processing and template functions
18 * All functions are lazy: they will actually only do things when the change