For lent I decided to expand my mind by subscribing to various feeds. On the Ubuntu Planet, I have been reading MathiasZ's puppet/cloud list. One of the series has been managing EC2 systems using Puppet http://ubuntumathiaz.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/using-puppet-in-uecec2-puppet-support-in-ubuntu-images/ http://ubuntumathiaz.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/using-puppet-in-uecec2-automating-the-signing-process/ http://ubuntumathiaz.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/using-puppet-in-uecec2-node-classification-4/ http://ubuntumathiaz.wordpress.com/2010/04/08/using-puppet-in-uecec2-improving-performance-with-phusion-passenger/ I think we could do similar to deal with Fedora systems on EC2. Need to work out how/what still.. -- Stephen J Smoogen. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning