[stakent]

I use fabric for deployment, testing, log maintenance, database backups. For almost everything on remote machines.

Learning curve is rather not steep.

[b14ck]

+1 for fabric.

If you haven't used fabric, give it a try. It's an extremely simple API for performing remote management, deployment, etc.

I've tried numerous tools but nothing compares to fabric. It is just so easy and it always works. I can't imagine not seeing a fabfile.py in my project's deploy/ dir anymore, it just wouldn't be right.