(Ab)using Chef in AWS OpsWorks.

OpsWorks Example

# this will include the standard OpsWorks 'deploy' recipe
include_recipe 'deploy'

# now you can do things like this
node[:deploy].each do |application, deploy|
  deploy = node[:deploy][application]

  package "GraphicsMagick" do
    action  :install
    options "-y"
  end

  opsworks_deploy_dir do
    user deploy[:user]
    group deploy[:group]
    path deploy[:deploy_to]
  end
end