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Fabric is a pypi library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of Fabric get paid by Tidelift to ensure Fabric meets standardized secure software development practices.

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Thanks to maintainers working on projects like Fabric, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.

You can feel confident bringing Fabric into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of Fabric are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

Fabric is a part of the Tidelift Subscription

Fabric is a high level Python (2.7, 3.4+) library designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH, yielding useful Python objects in return.

It builds on top of Invoke (subprocess command execution and command-line features) and Paramiko (SSH protocol implementation), extending their APIs to complement one another and provide additional functionality.

Core use cases for Fabric include (but are not limited to):

  • Single commands on individual hosts
  • Single commands across multiple hosts (via varying methodologies: serial, parallel, etc).
  • Python code blocks (functions/methods) targeted at individual connections.

Fabric is available via the PyPI package manager.

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"I believe Tidelift's model has a lot of promise. I signed up because I want to help them prove the system works and to give feedback from the perspective of a multi-package maintainer."

Jeff Forcier, Fabric maintainer

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The only source for human-validated data on secure software development practices for open source

Tidelift pays open source maintainers to ensure their projects follow industry-standard secure software development practices (like those found in the NIST Secure Software Development Framework and the OpenSSF Scorecards). We work together with our maintainer partners to provide this unique and valuable data, so you know if, when, and how your open source will be secured and maintained.
 Validated license
 2FA on source repository
 Validated versioning scheme
 2FA on package manager
 Release managers reviewed
 Documented maintenance plan
 Vulnerabilities have document review
 Validated source repository url
 Vulnerabilities have fixed release or documented mitigation available
 Discoverable security policy

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