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honcho		Fabric
	Project
1	Mentions	3
1,574	Stars	14,609
-	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	6.1
4 months ago	Latest Commit	30 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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honcho

Posts with mentions or reviews of honcho. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

What are "Procfile" and "Honcho" used for?
1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 11 Mar 2021

And it's all run via https://github.com/nickstenning/honcho

Fabric

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fabric. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-30.

Ansible clone how to
3 projects | /r/ansible | 30 May 2022

Otherwise, in addition to ansible-core, there's other config management projects written in python like salt or fabric that you could perhaps draw inspiration from.
Good tool for automatic setup and deployment of Django projects
2 projects | /r/codehunter | 13 Apr 2022

I've used Rake and Fabric for somewhat similar (but less ambitious) stuff in the past and I'm thinking that Fabric might be a pretty good fit for this task as well, but I'd still like your input. Are there other tools I should look into? I've heard goodthings about Puppet but just looking at their site (it contains the word Enterprise ) gives me the feeling that it might be overkill for a one man operation.
Cronjob to run on multiple multiple mchines
3 projects | /r/bash | 12 Mar 2021

Fabric, if you like Python.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing honcho and Fabric you can also consider the following projects:

supervisor - Supervisor process control system for Unix (supervisord)

Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

pexpect - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal

pyinfra - pyinfra automates infrastructure using Python. It’s fast and scales from one server to thousands. Great for ad-hoc command execution, service deployment, configuration management and more.

letsencrypt - Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

Capistrano - A deployment automation tool built on Ruby, Rake, and SSH.

Cloud-Init - unofficial mirror of Ubuntu's cloud-init

psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python

pypyr automation task runner - pypyr task-runner cli & api for automation pipelines. Automate anything by combining commands, different scripts in different languages & applications into one pipeline process.

ShutIt - Automation framework for programmers