# sebastien/cuisine

Chef-like functionality for Fabric

Repository: https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cuisine
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-05-21T02:33:24+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5665, "days_push": 835, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1265, forks 157 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:11.059469+00:00)

## What it is
Cuisine is a Python library providing a flat, platform-neutral API for automating operating system tasks on local or remote servers, built to complement Fabric. It simplifies devops tasks like provisioning, deployment, and administration through Python scripting instead of shell scripts.

## Use cases
- automate server administration tasks with python
- provision remote servers without complex frameworks
- run remote scripting over ssh from python
- manage packages across debian redhat and freebsd hosts
- replace shell scripts with python for devops automation
- deploy applications to unix servers programmatically

## When to avoid
- you need declarative, idempotent configuration management at scale
- you need windows support, as cuisine targets unix systems only
- you want a fully maintained framework with active development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: configuration-management, developer-tools, cli
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: remote-scripting, fabric, server-automation, provisioning, ssh, devops, automation, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- sebastien/cuisine (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.059469+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:04:00.233932+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.059469+00:00, sha 74360dd27bf1)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/cuisine/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:16:09.944135+00:00, sha 5e2bbf9b07c1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.