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## What is Fora?
Fora is an infrastructure and configuration management tool inspired by [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com) and [pyinfra](https://pyinfra.com).
Yet, it implements a drastically different approach to inventory management (and some other aspects), when compared to these well-known tools.
See [how it differs](https://oddlama.gitbook.io/fora/outlining-the-differences#how-is-fora-different-from-existing-tools) for more details.
## Installation & Quickstart
You can install Fora with pip:
```bash
pip install fora
```
Afterwards, you can use it to write scripts which will be used to run operations or commands on a remote host.
```python
# deploy.py
from fora.operations import files, system
files.directory(
name="Create a temporary directory",
path="/tmp/hello")
system.package(
name="Install neovim",
package="neovim")
```
These scripts are executed against an inventory, or a specific remote host (usually via SSH).
```bash
fora root@example.com deploy.py
```
To start with your own (more complex) deploy, you can have Fora create a scaffolding in an empty directory. There are [different scaffoldings](https://oddlama.gitbook.io/fora/usage/introduction#deploy-structure) available for different use-cases.
```bash
fora --init minimal
```
Fora can do a lot more than this, which is explained in the [Introduction](https://oddlama.gitbook.io/fora/usage/introduction). If you are interested in how Fora is different from existing tools, have a look at [Outlining the differences](https://oddlama.gitbook.io/fora/outlining-the-differences).