Fabfile construction and use — Fabric documentationFabric is capable of loading Python modules (e.g. fabfile .py) or packages (e.g. a
fabfile / directory containing an __init__.py). By default, it looks for something ...
Welcome to Fabric's documentation! — Fabric documentationThis site covers Fabric's usage & API documentation. For basic info on what
Fabric is, including its public changelog & how the project is maintained, please
see ...
Welcome to Fabric ! — Fabric documentationFabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the
use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It
provides ...
Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the
use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. It
provides ... Installing - Fabric documentation - FAQ - Development
File and Directory Management — Fabric documentationWhen a list is given, each string inside is handled independently (but in the order
given.) If text is ... Attempt to comment out all lines in filename matching regex.
fab options and arguments — Fabric documentationBasic use¶. In its most simple form, fab may be called with no options at all, and
with one or more arguments, which should be task names, e.g.: $ fab task1 task2.
The environment dictionary, env — Fabric documentationprint("Executing on %s as %s" % ( env . host , env .user)) ... Causes the SSH layer to
merge a remote program's stdout and stderr streams to avoid becoming ...
Parallel execution — Fabric documentationThis document describes Fabric's options for running tasks on multiple hosts in
parallel , via per-task decorators and/or global command-line switches.
Decorators — Fabric documentationConvenience decorators for use in fabfiles. fabric. decorators .hosts(*host_list)¶.
Decorator defining which host or hosts to execute the wrapped function on.
Module providing easy API for working with remote files and folders. .... Render
and upload a template text file to a remote host. Returns the result of the inner ...
Project Tools — Fabric documentationSynchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync . ...
rsync_project() is thus a simple wrapper around rsync ; for details on how rsync ...
Managing output — Fabric documentationAs with aborts, this setting does not control actual warning behavior, only whether
warning messages are printed or hidden . running : Printouts of commands ...
SSH behavior — Fabric documentationSSH's host key tracking mechanism keeps tabs on all the hosts you attempt to
connect to, and maintains a ~/. ssh / known_hosts file with mappings between ...
However, it's possible to expand this simple usage into something more flexible,
by using the provided options and/or passing arguments to individual tasks.
Synchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync . ... If
local_dir ends with a trailing slash , the files will be dropped inside of remote_dir.
As mentioned, the env object is simply a dictionary subclass, so your own fabfile
code may store .... To indicate a specific file, use the full path to the file.
Where upload_project() makes use of scp to copy one's entire project every time
it is invoked, rsync_project() uses the rsync command-line utility, which only ...
There's nothing magic about it – anything you can do in a normal Python script
can be done in a fabfile! ... On localhost, we have a local clone of said Web
application. ... Our base case works fine now, but what happens if our tests fail ?
The most common method for utilizing Fabric is via its command- line tool, fab,
which ... using a standard style of command- line switches, help output , and so
forth. ... by using the provided options and/or passing arguments to individual
tasks.
If you've defined a host list at the module level or on the command line, this
usage will act like ... Sets env.rcfile to the given file path, which Fabric will try to
load on startup and use to ... Prints the entire docstring for the given task, if there
is one.
Synchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync . ...
Furthermore, this function transparently honors Fabric's port and SSH key
settings.
Sets env.no_agent to True, forcing our SSH layer not to talk to the SSH agent ...
Sets env.keepalive to the given (integer) value, specifying an SSH keepalive ...
rsync_project() is thus a simple wrapper around rsync; for details on how rsync
works , please see its manpage. rsync must be installed on both your local and ...
Most of the time you will want to just write out the task in your fabfile ..... By default
, Fabric looks for ~/.fabricrc, and this may be overridden by specifying the - c flag ...
File and Directory Management¶. Module .... Templates will be loaded from the
invoking user's current working directory by default, or from template_dir if given.
E.g. fab task1 -H hostname task2 -i path /to/keyfile is just as valid as the more ....
equals signs (=) for keyword arguments, or omit them for positional arguments.
Installing — Fabric documentationOr, to install an editable version for debugging/hacking, execute pip install -e . (or
python setup. py develop) inside a downloaded or cloned copy of the source ...
Context Managers — Fabric documentationWhen using Python 2.5, you will need to start your fabfile with from __future__
import with_statement in order to make use of the with statement (which is a ...
Defining tasks — Fabric documentationTo see exactly what tasks in your fabfile may be executed via fab , use fab --list. ....
of our class; that's simply normal Python object-oriented programming at work . ....
own submodule, it looks kind of silly, but the benefits should be pretty obvious.
If you've defined a host list at the module level or on the command line, this ... off
an SSH -borne command while leveraging your fabfile's connection settings.
Execution model — Fabric documentationHowever, in many situations you'll find yourself wanting to execute multiple tasks
and/or on multiple hosts . Perhaps ..... and append this to the bottom of the file :.
Note. You are not using the most up to date version of the library. 1.10 is the
newest version. Welcome to Fabric's documentation!¶. This site covers Fabric's ...
For each task, a task-specific host list is generated from various sources (see .....
up our migration code in our source repo, and deploy just the DB boxes again:.
Fabric is best installed via pip (highly recommended) or easy_install (older, but
still ... (or python setup.py develop) inside a downloaded or cloned copy of the ...
The fabfile discovery algorithm searches in the invoking user's current working
directory or any parent directories. Thus, it is oriented around “project” use, where
...
Color output functions — Fabric documentationFor example, to print some text as green on supporting terminals: from fabric.
colors import green print( green ("This text is green !")) Because these functions ...
Dependencies¶. In order for Fabric's installation to succeed, you will need four
primary pieces of software: the Python programming language;; the setuptools ...
If you've defined a host list at the module level or on the command line, this
usage ... For example, let's say you just wanted to get the kernel info for a bunch
of ...
Synchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync . ...
Calling this function when the current host string contains a nonstandard port, ...
Utils — Fabric documentationfabric .utils.error(message, func=None, exception=None, stdout=None, stderr=
None)¶. Call func with ... Print text immediately, without any prefix or line ending .
Welcome to Fabric! — Fabric documentationTypical use involves creating a Python module containing one or more functions,
... Once a task is defined, it may be run on one or more servers, like so : ... uname
-s [localhost] out: Darwin [ linuxbox ] run: uname -s [ linuxbox ] out: Linux Done.
@ task may also be called with arguments to customize its behavior. Any
arguments not documented below are passed into the constructor of the
task_class ...
Django Integration — Fabric documentationOnce this is done, your fabfile may import from your Django project, or Django
itself, without requiring the use of manage.py plugins or having to set the ...
The most common method for utilizing Fabric is via its command - line tool, fab, ...
our SSH layer not to talk to the SSH agent when trying to unlock private key files.
The test for whether text already exists defaults to a full line match, e.g. ^<text>$,
as this seems to be the most sensible approach for the “ append lines to a file ” ...
Synchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync . Where
upload_project() makes use of scp to copy one's entire project every time it is ...
Module providing easy API for working with remote files and folders. .... Render
and upload a template text file to a remote host . Returns the result of the inner ...
Abort execution, print msg to stderr and exit with error status (1.) ... get buffered by
Python's output buffering (such as within a processor intensive for loop).
SSH's host key tracking mechanism keeps tabs on all the hosts you attempt to
connect to, and maintains a ~/. ssh /known_hosts file with mappings between ...
See description of the same argumnet in ~fabric.contrib. sed for details. .... Other
options may be specified with sed -compatible regex flags – for example, to make
...
ssh_opts: Like extra_opts but specifically for the SSH options string ( rsync's ...
Furthermore, this function transparently honors Fabric's port and SSH key
settings.
SSH's host key tracking mechanism keeps tabs on all the hosts you attempt to
connect ... Add: the new host key is added to the in-memory list of known hosts ,
the ...
These functions streamline the process of initializing Django's settings module
environment variable. Once this is done, your fabfile may import from your
Django project, or Django itself, without requiring the use of manage .py ... Main
website ...
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) — Fabric documentationThis is required in order for Fabric to reliably figure out, after your command has
run, .... While Fabric is written with bash in mind, it's not an absolute requirement .
user: Fabric defaults to your local username when making SSH connections, but
you can .... Defines the current user/host/ port which Fabric will connect to when ...
If you've defined a host list at the module level or on the command line, this ...
Sets env.no_agent to True, forcing our SSH layer not to talk to the SSH agent
when ...
Tasks with no hosts in their host list are considered local -only, and will ..... is set
to True at the time of failure – with, say, the settings context manager – Fabric will
...
A simple but integral aspect of Fabric is what is known as the “environment”: a
Python dictionary subclass, which is used as a combination settings registry and
...
fabric.contrib. files .append(filename, text , use_sudo=False, partial=False, escape
=True, ... Return True if given path exists on the current remote host . If use_sudo
...
During execution, Fabric normalizes the host strings given and then stores each
part (username/ hostname /port) in the environment dictionary, for both its use ...
However, decorator host lists do not override per-task command-line ... hosts and
roles per-task kwargs, in that it is stripped from the actual task invocation.
Default: []. Set by fab to the full host list for the currently executing command. ....
Used to set the $PATH shell environment variable when executing commands in
...
user: Fabric defaults to your local username when making SSH connections, but
you can ..... Used to set the $PATH shell environment variable when executing ...
remote_dir: the only required parameter, this is the path to the directory on the
remote server . Due to how rsync is implemented, the exact behavior depends on
...
However, in many situations you'll find yourself wanting to execute multiple tasks
..... serves as a per- user /per- host cache, storing the most recently entered ...
When set, this setting allows get to copy (using sudo) the remote files to a
temporary location on the remote end (defaults to remote user's $HOME; this may
be ...
Sets env.user to the given string; it will then be used as the default username ...
also needed whenever an argument involves other shell-related characters such
...
These functions streamline the process of initializing Django's settings module
environment variable. Once this is done, your fabfile may import from your
Django ...
The task list is walked through in order, and each task is run once per host in its
.... only works if you want all your tasks to run on the same host list all the time.
E.g. rsync_project ("/home/ username /project", "foldername/") will drop the
contents of foldername inside of /home/ username /project. If local_dir does not
end with ...
The most common method for utilizing Fabric is via its command -line tool, fab,
which ... As detailed in Overview and Tutorial and Execution model, this will run
task1 followed by .... A comma-separated list of output levels to hide by default.
Once this is done, your fabfile may import from your Django project, or Django ...
server – which would then be interacting with your production Django database.
Synchronize a remote directory with the current project directory via rsync. ... If
True, instructs rsync to remove remote files that no longer exist locally. Defaults to
...
