Is there a Perl or Lua alternative to Capistrano?

Question

For a number of web-applications I need something like Capistrano to automate deployment. I know Capistrano can be used to deploy non-ruby applications but I\'m not familiar

Answer 1

The Perl alternative is Rex. And it has way more features than capistrano.

Answer 2

Not sure there is an exact Perl "clone" of Capistrano.

However on CPAN there are these Make / Rake like tools:

• App::PPBuild (no longer available on CPAN, it can be found on BackPan in EXODIST folder)
• Pake

And these SSH tools:

• SSH::Command
• SSH::RPC
• Net::OpenSSH
• Net::SSH
• Net::SSH::Perl

So combination of these should fit the bill.

PS. Regarding your update - Net::SSH::Perl maybe useful if you don't have SSH installed on machine (this is pure Perl SSH implementation).