Puppet/Chef/Cfengine are different to Fabric/Capistrano The former are pull management, eg nodes request configuration. The latter are push management, eg main

Puppet/Chef/Cfengine are different to Fabric/Capistrano The former are pull management, eg nodes request configuration. The latter are push management, eg main server pushes to nodes. My main concern is that you did not point out your requirements. So you leaped from one technology to a different one because puppet was 'maximum pain'.