The easiest, most common sense configuration management tool... because you just use fucking shell scripts.

├── files
│   └── keys
│       └── deploy_key
├── scripts
│   ├── apt.sh
│   ├── deploy_key.sh
│   ├── git.sh
│   ├── redis.sh
│   ├── ruby2.sh
│   ├── rubygems.sh
└── servers
    ├── defaults.yml
    └── app-server.yml

For more details on the specific usage of the gem, refer to the the github page

Steps to get going using this skeleton app:

1. git clone [email protected]:brandonhilkert/fucking_shell_scripts_skeleton.git
2. gem install fucking_shell_scripts
3. Update the /scripts folder with the scripts you need for your servers
4. Update the /server folder with the yml files for your servers
5. Ensure AWS_ACCESS_KEY and AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY is an ENV variable on your system with your credentials
6. fss app-server
7. Sit back
8. Laugh at those pulling their hair out over Chef

During development of a script, use vagrant:

vagrant up
cd /vagrant

cd /vagrant will put you in the root folder of the project so that you can run a script such as ./scripts/git.sh.