Recently, for some reason, I’ve found myself creating a number of virtual machines: Linux machines, AWS machines, new machines, etc. Invariably, the first things I want are to get “my” personal toolchain in place. I want: my vim configuration my tmux configuration my favorites libraries Ember Ember Data Query my Ruby version manager (chruby) To this end I have adopted “Chef”. Thanks to the following superior documentation resources, I found this to be not too much of a pain. Figure Out EC2 Instances on AWS I had never used EC2 or AWS for computing services. This is a means for getting a virtual machine that you can pay for per-use from Amazon.