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At Atomic Object, we like to keep things simple. For Justin and I, this often means using Puppet Standalone or Chef Solo to configure servers that don’t yet (and may never) require the coordination of a Puppet Master or Chef Server. Justin recently blogged about the pattern we use with Chef Solo. I’m going to share a new tool we’ve started using to keep these repositories simple, even as the requirements grow.

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