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Ansible is a better alternative to Fabric. It is suggested that you use Ansible instead.
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Docstring will be displayed when you type the command
fab -l. -
Invoke is for local use. Fabric 2 will be based on invoke.
Issues
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\u2018' in position 33: ordinal not in range(128)
It is suggested that minimize output to avoid this issue.
Fabric has issues with Unicode-only characters right now.
Supressing outputs (of shell commands) containing unicode can help avoid potential UnicodeEncodeError.
Question
Is it possible to surpress logging information?
References
http://www.legendu.net/misc/blog/run-commands-on-remote-machines/