[Chicago] deployment tools

[Milan Andric]

Hey Folks,

I'm working on some infrastructure and was wondering what tools people
are using to do stuff like:

1) generate some sql and run it on a few machines/databases
2) generate some apache conf and install it on some machines
3) checkout some code from svn onto a server

I'm trying to automate this a little bit and before I go too far with
my shell scripting I thought I'd ask around.  Each time there is a new
project there is about 15 monotonous steps that need to be done that
are nearly identical and error prone.

Thanks for your advice,

Milan