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Capistrano vs SlickStack: 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, SlickStack is detailed as "LEMP stack automation for WordPress". SlickStack is a free LEMP stack automation script written in Bash designed to enhance and simplify WordPress provisioning, performance, and security.
Capistrano and SlickStack 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, SlickStack provides the following key features:
- CloudFlare
- Ubuntu
- Nginx
Capistrano and SlickStack are both open source tools. It seems that Capistrano with 11.1K GitHub stars and 1.71K forks on GitHub has more adoption than SlickStack with 88 GitHub stars and 20 GitHub forks.
Pros of Capistrano
- Automated deployment with several custom recipes123
- Simple63
- Ruby23
- Release-folders with symlinks11
- Multistage deployment9
- Cryptic syntax2
- Integrated rollback2
- Supports aws1
Pros of SlickStack
- WordPress exclusive0
- Designed for Ubuntu LTS0
- Dependency-free0
- Idempotent installation0
- Works on any cloud VPS network0
- Free OpenSSL certificates (that never expire)0
- 100% open source (better security and transparency)0
- Native Bash commands (no learning new shortcuts)0
- Includes MU plugins for technical SEO, etc0
- Built-in WordPress plugin blacklist0
- Redis object caching enabled by default0
- Nginx FastCGI Cache enabled by default0
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