Vlad the Deployer is pragmatic application deployment automation, without mercy. Much like Capistrano, but with 1/10th the complexity. Vlad integrates seamlessly with Rake, and uses familiar and standard tools like ssh and rsync. Impale your application on the heartless spike of the Deployer.

OxenDeployer was born out of desperation with Vlad accepting commits

Execute chef-solo with Rake::RemoteTask to remote host.

Install Puppet via Rake and apply your manifests.