Exactly. I suppose recipe implied Chef, but I should have explicitly mentioned it.

Thanks,

Cary

On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Joshua Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> It seems to me that you cold accomplish most, if not all, of what you
> want with a good deployment recipe.
> 
> Perhaps this is in fact what we are looking for:
> https://www.getchef.com/chef/. It allows you to set up an OS in a
> standardized and re-usable way. It would be much more feasible to have a
> repo of library-related "recipes" that allow us to have a standard,
> automated process for setting up common library applications (primarily
> thinking server here but client is also imaginable).