Building chef-py: Replacing Chef with Python

&#xA; Introduction&#xA; # &#xA; &#xA; I&rsquo;ve been using Chef for server configuration for a while now. It works, but there&rsquo;s always been friction. I don&rsquo;t write Ruby anywhere else, so every time I need to update server configs, I&rsquo;m context-switching into a language I&rsquo;m barely literate in. Chef uses Ruby with its own DSL conventions, and while that&rsquo;s arguably…