Fabric

Fabric is a Python (2.5-2.7) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

You can find the documentation here

Installation

# yum -y install epel-release

# yum -y install fabric

Hello World

# cat > fabfile.py <<EOF
> def hello():
>     print("Hello world!")
>
> EOF

and run it

# fab hello -f ./fabfile.py

Hello world!

Done.

A more complicated example

def HelloWorld():
        print("Hello world!")

def hello(name="world"):
        print("Hello %s!" % name )

# fab HelloWorld -f ./fabfile.py
Hello world!

Done.

# fab hello -f ./fabfile.py
Hello world!

Done.

# fab hello:name=ebal -f ./fabfile.py
Hello ebal!

Done.

A remote example

from fabric.api import run , env

env.use_ssh_config = True

def HelloWorld():
    print("Hello world!")

def hello(name="world"):
    print("Hello %s!" % name )

def uptime():
    run('uptime')

ssh configuration file

with the below variable declaration
(just remember to import env)
fabric can use the ssh configuration file of your system

  env.use_ssh_config = True

and run it against server test

$ fab -H test uptime -f ./fabfile.py

[test] Executing task 'uptime'
[test] run: uptime
[test] out:  20:21:30 up 10 days, 11 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
[test] out: 

Done.
Disconnecting from 192.168.122.1:22... done.