This is an example of a serverless puppet manifest more details at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/index.html

This manifest can be used to install the packages you require to bring a AWS base AMI up to your specs. Then save the AMI and reuse.

steps to run:

1. get some base AMI from aws marketplace. I chose a base ubuntu server Ubuntu 13.04 raring
2. login to this new server: ssh -i ~/.ssh/.pem ubuntu@
3. install puppet e.g. sudo apt-get install puppet-common
4. copy this folder over: scp -r -i ~/.ssh/.pem infra/ ubuntu@:/tmp
5. sudo puppet apply --modulepath=/tmp/infra/puppet/modules --verbose infra/puppet/manifests/site.pp

NOTE: Before you can use this, be sure to replace all values in CAPS accordingly e.g.

main.cf.erb

SENDGRID_USERNAME:SENDGRID_PASSWORD

nginx.conf.erb

YOUR_DOMAIN.crt YOUR_DOMAIN.key server_name YOUR_DOMAIN.com www.YOUR_DOMAIN.com;

passwd-s3fs.erb

S3FS_PASSWORD

ssh.config.erb

REMOTE_GIT_REPO_DOMAIN_NAME

This puppet manifest will install:

make gcc fuse (for s3fs) nginx (with spdy support) git wget python g++ nodejs postfix openssl rsync s3fs monit redis virtualenv

This gives you a good sample and starting point. Use this manifest, update/tweak it and automate your deployment !

Have fun...