Fabric is “designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of servers in parallel or serially.”

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It’s primarily for deploying changes to web apps or services across multiple servers. An official mirror is hosted on GitHub at http://github.com/karmazilla/fabric.

While still alpha level, it looks promising.