The one thing that makes me mildly uncomfortable about pallet is that, in the end, it's just another "run these shell scripts to set up your server" system. I

The one thing that makes me mildly uncomfortable about pallet is that, in the end, it's just another "run these shell scripts to set up your server" system. I find I prefer tools like puppet or chef and then extending them to deal with AWS (cluster-chef, for example).