The brain-wizards in architecture at my P.O.E. are using Chef to create scripts that automate the creation of server instances on Amazon EC2. Basically it's like a build script for setting up a system. You click go and a server instance is created and configured exactly as you want it. They're pretty excited about it. I haven't had any time to look into it, but I'd like to at some point. -Erik On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Dan Burkland wrote: > >> Puppet is an interesting beast but it works like a charm once setup. > > > I hadn't heard of Puppet or Chef and I was having a hard time getting a > description of what they do that wasn't embedded in impenetrable technical > jargon (e.g., check out Wikipedia's entry for "Puppet (software)"). Then I > found this article which explained Puppet functionality using ordinary > language that doesn't expect the reader to have a PhD in Comp Sci: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/automate-system-administration-tasks-puppet > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer erik.mitchell at gmail.com erik at ekmitchell.com http://ekmitchell.com/