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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by boothead on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:21PM (#5738419)
If you think puppet/chef is too much complexity you might find saltstack worth some attention. I haven't used it in real anger yet, but I've really liked what I've seen so far. I see they've even got instructions specific to aws now too [1]

Also worth mentioning cloud formation as well [2]. That might make the pain of chef/puppet more of a worthwhile investment!

[1] https://salt-cloud.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/aws.html

[2] http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/

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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by tomsthumb on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:33PM (#5738484)
Ansible is another alternative that is relatively simple.
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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by gazarsgo on Monday May 20, 2013 @01:42PM (#5738872)
I've been using Ansible for a couple weeks now and it is awesome how simple it is compared to Chef/Puppet (IMO)
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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by druiid on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:56PM (#5738632)
I really want to use Salt for something one of these days given I work with Python quite a bit... but basically at this point my investment with Puppet is relatively significant, so I'm not sure if the pain of switching would be worth it. I'm sure eventually I'll find a use for it though! I like what I've seen before.
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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by sigmavirus24 on Monday May 20, 2013 @12:29PM (#5738461)
Also there are some useful example states on GitHub: https://github.com/esacteksab/salt-states
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Re:Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup by uggedal on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:23PM (#5739810)
My salt states are public[1] and include among other things setup for nginx/redis/postgresql/uwsgi which powers a few Django and Flask sites.

[1]: https://github.com/uggedal/states

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