Ubuntu releases Ensemble, the equivalent of DPKG recipes for deployment

tl;dr: Chef recipes need to be modified by anyone who want to use them. Ensemble offers "formulas" that can be re-used and shared with no modifications needed.

Formulas link: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/docs/formula.html

Ensemble link: https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/

> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ensemble/ppa

> sudo apt-get update

> sudo apt-get install principia-tools

> export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> export AWS_SECRET_KEY_ID=0123456789ABCDEF

> ensemble bootstrap

> principia getall /some/path/for/formulas

> /usr/share/principia-tools/tests/mediawiki.sh /some/path/for/formulas

> What does this give you, well it should give you a 7 node mediawiki cluster of t1.micro’s in the us-east-1 region of EC2.