We haven't done a great job at updating the main site; we have a whole bunch of changes that will be pushed in the next week that should make things much clearer.
The core idea of our service is to go a bit further than Puppet and Chef. They're great tools, but that's what they are: tools, with pretty high barriers of entry. We let you describe your infrastructure (and automation) in a much more portable and straightforward way using readable JSON files (not unlike package.json). Want to add CouchDB to your server? Just add one line (`"couchdb": "*",`), we'll make sure this is done according to best practices (properly set up the init script, adding monitoring, following security guidelines...). And if you want to override our defaults, you can do so.
Hope that clarifies it until we get our new landing pages up.
The core idea of our service is to go a bit further than Puppet and Chef. They're great tools, but that's what they are: tools, with pretty high barriers of entry. We let you describe your infrastructure (and automation) in a much more portable and straightforward way using readable JSON files (not unlike package.json). Want to add CouchDB to your server? Just add one line (`"couchdb": "*",`), we'll make sure this is done according to best practices (properly set up the init script, adding monitoring, following security guidelines...). And if you want to override our defaults, you can do so.
Hope that clarifies it until we get our new landing pages up.