> Will,
> People say that largely because it's handy to be able to tell an existing
> list of servers that you deploy to, to run a command - some people (like
> myself) choose to ship a bash script with their app, to provision the
> server.

> Others use software like Deprec, Chap, Puppet or Sprinkle to do something
> similar, using the pre-existing lists of servers, and their roles via
> Capistrano to manage configurations.

> That's my take on it, and there's a post on the capistrano-dev list that
> says as much as "server provisioning isn't what we're good at" - so we won't
> be getting anymore involved I don't think... mostly what people are saying
> when they refer to provisioning with Capistrano is provisioning with
> Net::SSH with a list of servers that happens to be in your deploy.rb..

> Hope that clears up my take on this at least!

> - Lee

> 2009/7/2 william pink <will.p...@gmail.com>

> > Hi,

> > Just a general question

> > Many people have mentioned Capistrano as being a great tool for system
> > administration but I am finding it hard to find any reasons on why it would
> > be? Many of the tasks can be done with a much simpler Bash script but maybe
> > I don't know of the fantastic features Capistrano is capable of because of
> > the somewhat lacking documentation.

> > Any views on this?

> > Will