Aha! Lightbulb moment. I thought that Puppet and co. (chef and so on) were about pure configuration across multiple machines. I didn't realise they were about d

Aha! Lightbulb moment. I thought that Puppet and co. (chef and so on) were about pure configuration across multiple machines. I didn't realise they were about deployment as well. In that case I guess the problem is sort of solved but then I need to start thinking a layer higher than I have been. It would be nice if the solution to this proliferation still allowed me to think at the level of [synaptic/apt-get/dpkg] on Debian/Ubuntu/... or [yum/rpm] on Redhat/CentOS/Suse/... and so on. Do you think this is unreasonable of me?