I had the pleasure of talking with John M Willis, of the most excellent IT Management and Cloud Blog and Cloud Cafe Podcast fame.  John watches the IT Management and Cloud space like a hawk – pretty much no story misses his eye.  We talk about: What is Chef? How would people use it?

I’m pleased to announce the release of Chef, a systems integration framework that brings the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. With Chef, you can: Manage your servers by writing code, not by running commands.  Integrate tightly with your applications, databases, LDAP directories, and more.