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Cuisine is a task automation tool written in Python that provides a platform neutral abstraction over your operating system. It is designed as a simple flat API to interact with one or more servers, making it easy to do remote scripting piloted by Python.

Here are a few reasons why you would use Cuisine:

• You prefer to use Python rather than shell scripts for automation
• You prefer a simple solution to a complex framework
• You want to have full control over your automation process

Overall, Cuisine offers a simple abstraction layer over fundamental OS operations that make it easier to automate administration, building, provisioning, deployments and other devops-related tasks.

• Fabric: Fabric provides a way to run arbitrary commands across hosts, and sits at a lower level than Cuisine. In fact, the previous version of Cuisine was built on top of Fabric.
• Salt: Salt provides a high-level declarative interface to systems, while Cuisine offers a lower level API that you can use to write your own scripts or logic.

Currently, Cuisine is only intended to work on UNIX systems, and has specialised functions for the following systems:

• Packages: apt (Debian,Ubuntu), yum (Redhat, Fedora), pkg (FreeBSD)

• Mitogen
• Paramiko
• ParallelSSH
• SSHPipe