Since Fabric 1.3, the execute helper is now available to do just this. The documentation is available here: Intelligently executing tasks with execute. Here is the example they use: from fabric.api import run, roles, execute env.roledefs = { ‘db’: [‘db1’, ‘db2’], ‘web’: [‘web1’, ‘web2’, ‘web3’], } @roles(‘db’) def migrate(): # Database stuff here. pass @roles(‘web’) … Read more
Since version 1.4 fabric has environment option that enables agent forwarding. env.forward_agent = True UPD: This feature was buggy before fabric 1.4.2
Does it make sense using both fabric and ansible tools somehow? Yes. All your logic should live in Ansible and you can use Fabric as a lightweight wrapper around it. fab deploy is easier to remember than, e.g. ansible-playbook -v –inventory=production –tags=app site.yml Is it possible to use ansible from my windows development environment to … Read more
Starting from version 1.9, Fabric includes a way of managing this properly. The section about Prompts in the Fabric documentation says: The prompts dictionary allows users to control interactive prompts. If a key in the dictionary is found in a command’s standard output stream, Fabric will automatically answer with the corresponding dictionary value. You should … Read more
Flightplan looks very interesting and is inspired by Fabric. Its documentation has extensive examples and is worth checking out.
Exactly what you are asking for should be happening. From the docs: run will return the result of the remote program’s stdout as a single (likely multiline) string. run(), and related commands like local() and sudo(), return an _AttributeString object that is just a wrapper around stdout with attribute access to additional information like failure/success … Read more
It sounds like Managing output section is what you’re looking for. To hide the output from the console, try something like this: from __future__ import with_statement from fabric.api import hide, run, get with hide(‘output’): run(‘mysqldump –no-data test | tee test.create_table’) get(‘~/test.create_table’, ‘~/test.create_table’) Belows is the sample results: No hosts found. Please specify (single) host string … Read more
You’re looking for lcd (l for local) rather than cd (which is remote).
Since everyone’s environment is different, most Fabric scripts are going to be different from each other. So a “stock” Fabric script for anything will likely never exist. Fabric allows you to easily create your own. A couple links I found useful are: Fabric, Django, Git, Apache, mod_wsgi, virtualenv and pip deployment Deploying Django with Fabric
I know you’ve asked about password but wouldn’t it better to configure the system so that you can doing fabric (i.e. SSH) without password? For this, on local machine do: ssh-keygen and agree with all defaults (if you have no reasons do otherwise) cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub and copy that key On remote machine: mkdir ~/.ssh && … Read more