[tomjakubowski]

The team I work on had similar needs†, so we built a tool, atop the Python library fabric, to sync a project to (multiple) remote machines, build it, and execute it with configurable command line arguments.

http://github.com/Oblong/obi

†: the specific use-case was for development of multi-machine GUI applications that run in configurations like "display walls" or "immersion rooms". for every developer to have their own "display wall" or "immersion room" would cost lots of $$$, so many of the design decisions were based around the needs of a team of N developers that "shares" these systems.