A Visual Introduction to Chef

What's the current sentiment on Chef vs. Puppet these days?

Superb! I've recently started with Chef and the learning curve is very high, especially if you're like me and haven't touched Ruby before.

What is the difference between capistrano, Chef, and Puppet?

I would like to read this, but unfortunately there's a database involved in serving the pages. Remember, kids: text and images were served happily on the 'net long before MySQL existed.