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A Python library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. For questions about Google Fabric service, please use the tag [google-fabric]. For questions about FabricJs library, please use [fabricjs]. For questions about Hyperledger Fabric, please use [hyperledger-fabric]. For questions about the Minecraft modding toolchain Fabric, please use [minecraft-fabric].

Fabric provides a basic suite of operations for executing local or remote shell commands (normally or via sudo) and uploading/downloading files, as well as auxiliary functionality such as prompting the running user for input, or aborting execution.

Typical use involves creating a Python module containing one or more functions, then executing them via the fab command-line tool.

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python string iterpolation on files with % as comment

I would like to use fabric to generate a custom ejabberd config file and upload to server. fabric uses python string interpolation in fabric.contrib.files.upload_template. Unfortunately ejabberd config file uses %%% for comments Using python…
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Use Fabric's to get a shell with context managers like 'prefix' and 'cd' applied?

How can I get an interactive shell that's aware of any of Fabric's context managers that have been applied? For example, I'd expect that this would open a shell in /tmp/ with a virtualenv active: with cd("/tmp/"): with prefix("source…
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How can I log into a firewall first before running fabric commands?

I'm trying to get running a deployment file in fabric, but our appservers have a firewall before the actual servers that needs to be logged into first. How can i make fabric log into that first? i haven't been able to find and documentation on this…
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Fabric: Run command as root automatically

I have some freebsd servers and don't have sudo. But I want to run some command automatically with root just like the following command: def autodeploy(url): with cd('/tmp'): if not exists('releasetar.sh'): …
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modifying apache ports.conf via fabric script

I am automating the deploy of a site that requires me to add a listen port to ports.conf. Right now it is ok for me to just replace the existing one but as new sites get added I would like to be able to just modify the file. I have seen examples of…
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Unable to identify the host : Fabric

I m trying to use fabric module through simple python module remoteExc.py from fabric.api import * def clone_repo(IPADDRESS,USER,fPath,git_url): env.hosts_string = IPADDRESS env.user = USER env.key_filename = fPath env.disable_known_hosts =…
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Why does PIP install of python-couchdb experimental branch from SVN fail?

I'm setting up a Fabric/virtualenv/pip automated deployment for a project and I need to install the latest experimental branch of python-couchdb. Naturally, I stick it in my pip requirements file, like so: -e…
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Fabric -f option not working

I've been using Fabric successfully from my local machine for a while now and finally have a decent deploy script that I'd like to call during a post-receive hook for git. In order to accomplish this I have the following code, all of which is…
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Detach program from SSH connection on a windows

I need to log in to a Windows server via SSH through a local Python (2.7) script, start a script on the server and then disconnect the SSH connection, so that the local script can continue to run. As of now, I am using fabric, and the local script…
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`which` finds file, but `bash` doesn't

I installed Fabric via pip. Got pip by: sudo apt-get install python-pip Got fabric by: sudo pip install fabric (It failed when I tried w/out sudo, and warns me about a lack of files in docs or tests). Now I get the following: $ which…
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Python Fabric config file (~/.fabricrc) is not used

I'm developing a task where I need to have a few pieces of information specific to the environment. I setup the ~/.fabricrc file but when I run the task via command line, the data is not in the env variable I don't really want to add the -c config…
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How to get version number when using Chef to deploy application

I am using Jenkins to build the application in the testing server, after that, jenkins executes a fabric script in which a chef script will be executed in the production server. In the chef script, first i have to get the jar to be deployed from…
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fabric: dealing with cd() in helper functions

In fabric, the cd context manager works like with cd("dir"): run("command") and the command will be run after changing to the dir directory. This works fine, but the issue is that it uses a global state. For example, suppose I have a helper…
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How to use the default pip to install python packges to a specific virtualenv

How to use pip to install software to a specific virtualenv from outside the virtualenv. For example if I have a virtualenv /home/guest/virtualenv/django-env, How to install python packages into…
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Can Fabric display Yum or apt-get progress sliders correctly?

If you run run('yum upgrade') You'll see that the progress slider is repeated on screen, that is, every time it increments, a new line appears on screen unlike what you see in a 'real' ssh session (where the slider just increments to 100% on a…
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