[chef] should I be using chef?

[Kelly Goedert < >]

Hi,

I've read a bit about chef and I tried the tutorials in http://devops.mashion.net/. after following the installation instructions on the site. I was able to follow it and see chef in action which is great. After this, I can see an usage on managing server configs, which I want to do on a future. For now, I was wondering if I could use chef to "manage" developers environment like, installing and configuring eclipse, cvs, java and whatever a developer might need to work.

I know this is possible with chef for what I have seen. But is this usual? Or I am trying to use the tool for something it is not really made for?

Thanks

Kelly