If OP knows PHP then Laravel is a good choice. I love Ansible, it's the only provisioning tool that really clicked for me. I tried Chef a few years back to pr

If OP knows PHP then Laravel is a good choice. I love Ansible, it's the only provisioning tool that really clicked for me. I tried Chef a few years back to provision a single server and there were just too many moving parts - chef, chef-solo, chef-zero, knife, knife-solo, berkshelf. I gave it a go again last week and it's gotten easier, although I still think the docs for chef-zero are not that good.