Heavy metal Ruby SOAP client library

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/

A cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating
systems. Supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of which can be
restricted to working only on certain operating systems or
environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like
operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys.

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system
using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the
separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users,
cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like
packages, services, and files.

A cross-platform Ruby library for retrieving facts from operating
systems. Supports multiple resolution mechanisms, any of which can be
restricted to working only on certain operating systems or
environments. Facter is especially useful for retrieving things like
operating system names, IP addresses, MAC addresses, and SSH keys.

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system
using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the
separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users,
cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously discrete elements like
packages, services, and files.

A pluggable data store for hierarcical data

Development project for the latest Chef version. In our approach to make Chef a part of openSUSE, the development of the Chef 11 core packages now happens mostly in the appropriate project, devel:languages:erlang.

Chef is an open source systems integration framework built to bring the benefits of configuration management to your entire infrastructure. You write source code to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built, then apply those descriptions to your servers. The result is a fully automated infrastructure: when a new server comes on line, the only thing you have to do is tell Chef what role it should play in your architecture.