Capistrano

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First Added:April 5, 2023 Updated: May 17, 2026

Capistrano is a remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.

While this tool helped to usher in the practice of DevOps using Ruby as a DSL it was born before the time of [Declarative IaC](Declarative IaC). And as with many [Imperative IaC](Imperative IaC) tools the IaC is error prone and becomes unmaintainable long term. It has long since been replaced better tools and should be abandoned if at possible.

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