That's pretty much what we do at our company (albeit with Riak and it's not mongrel2) - we have x servers with shared config and they all need to get that confi

That's pretty much what we do at our company (albeit with Riak and it's not mongrel2) - we have x servers with shared config and they all need to get that config on startup. I shudder to remember the early days of running sed on multiple configuration files on multiple servers using parallel-ssh.