[chef] standalone installer based on chef

[Koert Kuipers < >]

we have all these nice chef scripts to do deployments.

and then sometimes we do installation at a client that does not have a chef server, and we end up writing a little bash script to do the install. that sucks.

would there be a way to embed the chef cookbooks and perhaps chef-solo in a tarball and base a standalone installer on that? would be a very nice way to re-use chef scripts