Chef has decent documentation, but the last time I checked, it was a lot less polished than Puppet's documentation. With that said, the folks in #chef on irc.f

Chef has decent documentation, but the last time I checked, it was a lot less polished than Puppet's documentation. With that said, the folks in #chef on irc.freenode.net are quite helpful, and it's possible that the documentation has improved since the release of 0.10.