Cluster Management Made Easy with the Python Package Fabric

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Ansible is a better alternative to Fabric. It is suggested that you use Ansible instead.

1. Docstring will be displayed when you type the command fab -l.

2. Invoke is for local use. Fabric 2 will be based on invoke.

Issues¶

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘ascii’ codec can’t encode character ‘\u2018’ in position 33: ordinal not in range(128)

It is suggested that minimize output to avoid this issue.

Fabric has issues with Unicode-only characters right now. Supressing outputs (of shell commands) containing unicode can help avoid potential UnicodeEncodeError.

Question¶

Is it possible to surpress logging information?

References¶

http://www.legendu.net/misc/blog/run-commands-on-remote-machines/