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).