Description

What is Fabric ?

Fabric is a high level Python (2.7, 3.4+) library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH, yielding useful Python objects in return:

from fabric import Connection

result = Connection('web1.example.com').run('uname -s', hide=True)

msg = "Ran {0.command!r} on {0.connection.host}, got stdout:\n{0.stdout}"

print(msg.format(result))

Ran 'uname -s' on web1.example.com, got stdout:
Linux

It builds on top of Invoke (subprocess command execution and command-line features) and Paramiko (SSH protocol implementation), extending their APIs to complement one another and provide additional functionality.