Looking for a name for a deployment framework...

[jonathan.slenders]

Hi all,

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server deployments?

It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written in Python.

Key points are that it uses Python, but is still very declarative and supports introspection. It supports parallel deployments, and interactivity. And it has a nice commandline shell with autocompletion for traversing the deployment tree.

The repository:
https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer/tree/refactoring-a-lot-v2


Suggestions welcome
Jonathan

 

[Roy Smith]

Hi all,

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server
deployments?

It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written in
Python.

Key points are that it uses Python, but is still very declarative and
supports introspection. It supports parallel deployments, and interactivity.
And it has a nice commandline shell with autocompletion for traversing the
deployment tree.

The repository:
https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer/tree/refactoring-a-lot-v2


Suggestions welcome
Jonathan

Without forming any opinion on the software itself, the best advice I
can offer is that naming puns are very popular. If you're thinking of
this as a fabric replacement, I would go with cloth, textile, material,
gabardine, etc.

 

[MRAB]

Without forming any opinion on the software itself, the best advice I
can offer is that naming puns are very popular. If you're thinking of
this as a fabric replacement, I would go with cloth, textile, material,
gabardine, etc.

Snakeskin? Oh, I see that's already taken. :-(

 

[Neil Cerutti]

Snakeskin? Oh, I see that's already taken. :-(

Most things are taken nowadays.

A short nonsense-word is best. Something like "Folaf". Yeah, it
doesn't spark the imagination, but it's easy to find, if not to
remember.

Well, not "Folaf." That seems to be an African style restaurant
in L.A.

 

[Cousin Stanley]

Any suggestions for a good name,
for a framework that does
automatic server deployments ?

asdf : automatic server deployment framework

 

[Irmen de Jong]

asdf : automatic server deployment framework

wsad: wonderful serverside automatic deployments

(hm, could use a bit of tweaking, maybe FPS keys don't map easily to names)


Irmen

 

[Fábio Santos]

Hi all,

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server deployments?

It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written in Python.

Key points are that it uses Python, but is still very declarative and

supports introspection. It supports parallel deployments, and
interactivity. And it has a nice commandline shell with autocompletion for
traversing the deployment tree.

The repository:
https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-deployer/tree/refactoring-a-lot-v2


Suggestions welcome
Jonathan

omglolftwdeploy

 

[jonathan.slenders]

Thanks everyone, I'll think about it.

The main reason is that I'm working on the documentation, and this a a good opportunity to think about the naming. python-deploy-framework or python-deployer could be too boring.

 

[Roy Smith]

asdf : automatic server deployment framework

I prefer:

Quite Wonderful Electronic Rollout Tool

 

[Chris Rebert]

Hi all,

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic server deployments?

It's like Fabric, but more powerful.
It has some similarities with Puppet, Chef and Saltstack, but is written

in Python.

Er, Salt is likewise written in Python.
(Your statement seemed to imply otherwise.)

Cheers,
Chris

 

[jonathan.slenders]

Le mardi 25 juin 2013 06:38:44 UTC+2, Chris Rebert a écrit :

Er, Salt is likewise written in Python.

You're right. Salt is also Python, excuse me, and it's very powerful as well.

 

[Robert Kern]

Without forming any opinion on the software itself, the best advice I
can offer is that naming puns are very popular. If you're thinking of
this as a fabric replacement, I would go with cloth, textile, material,
gabardine, etc.

brocade

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco

 

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic
server deployments?

Whatever you choose, make sure it is easily searchable. Googling for
"puppet" and "chef" only recently gave relevant results for something
not, er, doll or food related. It is not helpful that one of chef's
tools is called "knife".

Puns may be fun, (ok, puns _are_ fun, but don't ask my wife about that)
but it'll be a pain to find information about the software. This _may_
hinder adoption, as helpful search results may be hard to find.

Find something prononouncable, check it for "does not mean anything
insulting to anyone's mother's genetics in whatever language", and do a
quick search for it. The less results you get, the easier information
about your software will be to find later.

 

[Stig Sandbeck Mathisen]

Any suggestions for a good name, for a framework that does automatic
server deployments?

Whatever you choose, make sure it is easily searchable. Googling for
"puppet" and "chef" only recently gave relevant results for something
not, er, doll or food related. It is not helpful that one of chef's
tools is called "knife".

Puns may be fun, (ok, puns _are_ fun, but don't ask my wife about that)
but it'll be a pain to find information about the software. This _may_
hinder adoption, as helpful search results may be hard to find.

Find something prononouncable, check it for "does not mean anything
insulting to anyone's mother's genetics in whatever language", and do a
quick search for it. The less results you get, the easier information
about your software will be to find later.

 

[Dave Angel]

Whatever you choose, make sure it is easily searchable. Googling for
"puppet" and "chef" only recently gave relevant results for something
not, er, doll or food related. It is not helpful that one of chef's
tools is called "knife".

Puns may be fun, (ok, puns _are_ fun, but don't ask my wife about that)
but it'll be a pain to find information about the software. This _may_
hinder adoption, as helpful search results may be hard to find.

Find something prononouncable, check it for "does not mean anything
insulting to anyone's mother's genetics in whatever language", and do a
quick search for it. The less results you get, the easier information
about your software will be to find later.

OHHH, we've got another google-groups sucker. Please switch to
something that works, that doesn't double-post (like your current
message), and that doesn't double-space any quoting of previous messages.

Google groups has been broken for a long time, though the details change
from version to version. Learning to use it right is harder than
switching to a simple mail client like Thunderbird.

 

[xDog Walker]

Yet Another Deployment Framework?

 

[Roy Smith]

Yet Another Deployment Framework?

Boring.

How about "Soliloquy". Then the project tag line could be, "Deploy, or
not deploy, that is the question".

For further hack value, require that all pull requests to the project be
done entirely in iambic pentameter:

for host in hosts:
deploy(the_code).remote()

 

[Chris Angelico]

For further hack value, require that all pull requests to the project be
done entirely in iambic pentameter:

for host in hosts:
deploy(the_code).remote()

For further hack delight, require a patch
Submitted for this code restrict itself
To five feet, neither more nor less; iambs.
But how should all those colons be pronounced?

ChrisA

 

[rusi]

For further hack delight, require a patch
Submitted for this code restrict itself
To five feet, neither more nor less; iambs.
But how should all those colons be pronounced?

Hear Hear I say! Thou causest sweet delight
Chris with Roy; poets of this assembly