[carlio]

Though I haven't tried it, people tell me that ansible is pretty simple - http://www.ansible.com/home

For logging, try logstash? http://logstash.net/

Monitoring... well that's a large and complicated topic!

[adenot]

+1 on Ansible, great tool and super simple to configure and use.

[novaleaf]

thanks, i'll give ansible a try!