[This builds on the original session as given in Prague, incorporating feedback. It's the intro to Chef, in a less-technical manner. Consider it a Part 1...]

Opscode Chef is an open source systems integration framework, meant to reduce "one off" server building, allowing scalable architecture to be easily replicated, but also to allowing you to keep development, staging and production boxes in sync.. You write (and/or seek out) basic recipes to describe how you want each part of your infrastructure to be built. We'll discuss what Chef is, and it works, in a Drupal context.

Starting from scratch with simple server concepts like a fully managed LAMP stack, we'll add in Drupal installation, Drush, and so on.

Humor, especially of a muppet-y variety, will be key to making this presentation bearable. Wakka Wakka!