The best Capistrano alternatives
3 tools that do a similar job to Capistrano, 3 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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CapistranoA Ruby tool that runs deployment steps on your servers over SSH from the command line.
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Kamal
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k
Deploys containerized web apps to your own servers with zero-downtime switching.
Best for: Developers who want to self-host web apps without adopting a managed platform; Teams running the same app across several servers over SSH
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Fabric
Open source · MIT · ★ 44.5k
Open-source Go tool that runs shared AI prompt patterns from your command line or other tools.
Best for: Command-line users who want to run AI prompts on files or piped text; People who want to collect and reuse their own prompts for recurring tasks
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Deployer
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.1k
A PHP tool that automates deploying and provisioning PHP apps to servers.
Best for: PHP developers who deploy their own applications to servers; Teams that want the same deployment steps run the same way every time
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Capistrano. We don't take payment for placement.