Last week we rolled out Blueprint 3.0.4 to bring the speed and a rich new syntax for ignoring files and packages when creating blueprints. Not to rest on our laurels, we released Blueprint 3.0.5 this week which added the ability to tar up arbitrary directories along with your blueprint and a new blueprint-diff(1) command.

Now we're excited to announce something a little different: Blueprint I/O, a way to move your blueprints around.

Blueprint I/O comes with a default Blueprint I/O Server that we're making available free of charge which stores your blueprints in Amazon S3. Use blueprint-push(1) and blueprint-pull(1) to centralize your configuration management and bootstrap new servers painlessly.

Blueprint I/O is open-source and we're very interested in seeing where you take it.