Wrote up a detailed blog post explaining how to use Sprinkle to automate server provisioning and configuration. If you have a Rails application, and use Capistrano for deployment, then this will be especially relevant. Sprinkle is built right on Capistrano, has a lot of pre-made recipes and is extremely easy to setup and use. More importantly, unlike many other “simpler” solutions, Sprinkle recipes are idempotent, repeatable, and do not require prerequisites on the target server.