Is it just me or are there a ton of other folks doing this? The idea of introducing yet another layer of stuff is scary, and there's lots of work left to do on Chef. In a lot of ways, they feel just like Nomad (coincidentally also on the front page)... I wish they would spend some time on their core products versus expanding into an overfilled market.
However it shows that Chef (Company) is still able to design, build and ship a new product, as an organization. That's a very positive sign. Until recently I thought when comparing Chef with Hashicorp: Hashicorp is so much faster in building and releasing usable stuff but they seem to feel the pain in growing too fast and too broad in terms of products.
So, in the end: It's a great thing, just also don't forget to put more love into Chef (software) and don't dissipate developers/time/budget :)