Shoestrap

What is Shoestrap?

Shoestrap is a simple Bash-based alternative to Chef and Puppet. It speaks Bash so there's virtually no learning curve. More importantly, you won't have to learn yet another DSL. Shoestrap aims to get out of your way.

You should be able to get up and running in minutes, not hours.

What's wrong with Chef, Puppet and co.?

Chef and Puppet are great tools, but they are too complex for most use cases. The learning curve for these tools is quite steep as they each have their own DSL. On the other end, Shoestrap is just Bash. It does not require any 'Bash to config files' translation.

I believe Shoestrap is a great simple alternative to Chef or Puppet that will fulfill the needs of most people.

Example

You can see a sample cookbook at http://github.com/cmer/shoestrap-example.