I know it's not much of a big deal, but I have always been deterred from using Puppet, Chef, CfEngine because: a) You need to setup a central server (I hate ad

I know it's not much of a big deal, but I have always been deterred from using Puppet, Chef, CfEngine because: a) You need to setup a central server (I hate adding non-core infrastructure) b) You need Ruby. IMHO a whole new world of dependencies to taint and un-simplify your precious production servers.