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Capistrano vs Cleaver: What are the differences?
Developers describe Capistrano as "A remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby". Capistrano is a remote server automation tool. It supports the scripting and execution of arbitrary tasks, and includes a set of sane-default deployment workflows. On the other hand, Cleaver is detailed as "Simply provision, deploy, and manage servers, websites, and apps". A server management tool for hobbyists, startups, web design shops, and managed hosting providers. Minimize server management and app deployment fuss.
Capistrano and Cleaver can be primarily classified as "Server Configuration and Automation" tools.
Some of the features offered by Capistrano are:
- Reliably deploy web application to any number of machines simultaneously, in sequence or as a rolling set
- Automate audits of any number of machines (checking login logs, enumerating uptimes, and/or applying security patches)
- Script arbitrary workflows over SSH
On the other hand, Cleaver provides the following key features:
- VPS
- Hosting
- Deployments
Capistrano is an open source tool with 11.6K GitHub stars and 1.73K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Capistrano's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Capistrano
- Automated deployment with several custom recipes121
- Simple63
- Ruby23
- Release-folders with symlinks11
- Multistage deployment9
- Cryptic syntax2
- Integrated rollback2
- Supports aws1
Pros of Cleaver
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