If you haven't yet heard about Chef ("Infrastructure Automation for the Masses") then get out from under your rock! It is a neat tool for easily deploying servers with your desired configuration in one line of code. In a nutshell, instead of configuring a server (yawn), you actually code your desired server configuration into something called a recipe. Once you have these recipes in order you can simply ask chef to spawn new servers for you. Chef will take care of everything, it will start your cloud servers, bootstrap them with your required packages and dependencies, deploy your applications and kick up your services. Chef also has cool names for everything, from the tool you use (knife) to the type of coding you are doing (devops), which not only helps make you feel like a l33t haxor, but also turns configuring servers from being a massive pain into something that is almost fun (almost). Read on over at the TikiBooth blog by clicking read more below... TEASER: We have a MODX recipe almost finished =)

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