I've been through the same love/hate of using Chef, and have come to replace it with Docker. As a solo dev I have a bunch of services to configure and maintain,

I've been through the same love/hate of using Chef, and have come to replace it with Docker. As a solo dev I have a bunch of services to configure and maintain, and Docker is incredibly easier[1] to work with in comparison to Chef. [1] For my specific use cases.