Can capistrano or fabric be used to setup a server from scratch?

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Published on 2010-11-14T21:42:32Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 16:55 UTC
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I'm hoping there is a light weight, command line utility that I could use to setup a server from scratch.

I like python's fabric or ruby's capistrano but from what I was reading they are more used for deployment purposes and not setting up apache, mysql, update patches etc.

I know there are other tools like puppet, but I don't want to setup a master/slave for servers etc., I was hoping there was a more light-weight tool for this.

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