[chef] Re: anyone interested in a "hardware" cookbook?

[Ranjib Dey < >]

I'll be interested, i can do the dell/openmange stuff.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Bryan Berry < "> > wrote:

AtomicPenguin (Eric Wolfe) has put a good bit of work into the yumrepo recipes like vmware-tools and dell which detect and installs virtualization and management tools specific to those hardware or virtualization platforms.

I would want the similar functionality for a VM running in VMware Fusion, virtualbox, Xen, etc where adding the "recipe[hardware]" adds the paravirtualization tools specific to that platform. 

For machine running on actual bare metal, I want "recipe[hardware]" to detect and install the hardware management tools, be they Dell, HP, IBM, etc.

recipes

default -- detect current hardware or virt platform and install related tools

vmware-tools - install the paravirtualization tools for vmware

virtualbox - see vmware-tools

hp  - install hp-health tools for bare metal machine

dell - install dell openmanage

ibm - ....

anyone else interested in such a cookbook? I would only do the subset that relates to the platforms i use.

By the way, credit for this idea belongs to jpalmer who is creating something like this for puppet