Karamel is an interesting orchestration platform for chef solo that does what you are describing. But it is general purpose - add orchestration rules to chef c

Karamel is an interesting orchestration platform for chef solo that does what you are describing. But it is general purpose - add orchestration rules to chef cookbooks and then artibrarily compose platforms of services in a single compact yaml file. In contrast to gossiperl, it is centralized. Might be interesting to combine the two!