My apologies, this is a placeholder for a number of things I have meant to write about using Chef to deploy our cloud servers.  It turns out the task took longer and was a lot more convoluted than imagined, even after considering Hofstadter’s Law, so the writing has all been pushed back.  But here’s the proposed list of topics worth writing (& reading) about:

• What’s Wrong with Chef
• Chef for the Smaller-Than-Huge Guy
• Knife-zero workflow!
• Deploying MediaWiki via Chef

Last first, since it is current.