I happened to choose Sprinkle for the reason that I'd choose Babushka if I knew it was in mature-ish state already. Chef is twisted, elaborate, and complex init

I happened to choose Sprinkle for the reason that I'd choose Babushka if I knew it was in mature-ish state already. Chef is twisted, elaborate, and complex initial setup effort, with servers and clients, and books of documentation. I'd better spend the time learning shell scripting itself. Puppet/Moonshine has the type of syntax that doesn't fit me as a ruby developer. X - there is no X really. Not many options out there. Theoretically you could do everything with pure Capistrano, but that's not much different than manual shell scripting yet again. However I'm not the author of Babushka, this is just my take on your questions.