Okay, today I’m wearing my chef loves bacon hat. Today’s goal is to get started with Chef for provisioning load balanced API servers.

I’ll be starting out on a railscast video. Well this video is on chef-solo and I’ll be using chef server, so not as much help as I was hoping. Next I went through this tutorial, but it just flat out didn’t work, so I stopped half way through. My boss suggested this video series, but it is beyond boring and overly complex. We’ll be using opscode to host our chef server.