Ask HN: Any interest in chef/puppet hosting? My biggest strength technically is chef/puppet, automation, and configuration management. I have a 9-5, focusing solely on puppet/automation etc, but my real goal is self employment. The market for someone in this area is fairly lucrative, but most of the job opps are either W-2's or 6-12 month contracts, at least in my experience (am I wrong in this?). Are there any products anyone in the HN community would like to see/use having to do with config mgmt? Is there a need for chef/puppet server hosting? I was considering a site with the basic premise: 1. migrates a user from heroku to a cloud provider of their choice (amazon or rackspace to start) 2. sets them up a git repo, that includes all the default code that set the machine up (passenger installation, postgres etc); they can customize that code, push to git, and it will automatically apply the updates of the code. 3. allows them to utilize chef or puppet to manage their machines, and offers consulting services, the dashboard would also allow 1-click deployment of various stacks, spin up machines etc 4. 5-10$/mo per server? feel free to contact me anthony@coderindustries.com |