Fabric sends a bunch of commands over ssh. It's very simple, and your task is to write the right commands.
> Puppet in contrast to other systems emphasised on "define what I want" versus "define what todo", which is a great approach and we've [cdist] shameless cloned this approach.
With cdist and puppet you describe resources by instanciating resource types like Package, CronJob, Service, File, etc. It's very concise and high-level. Types are composable and easy to reuse, so if you see a common pattern in your configuration, you can factor it into a type.
