From: Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:59:12 -0700

I know next to nothing about this automated "programmable
administration" movement, but here are a few projects that seem to pop
up whenever the topic comes up.

Chef http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/FAQ
Puppet http://projects.puppetlabs.com/
Zookeeper http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/

Ed