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

[Graham Stewart < >]

For the bare metal part, I have a nice simple cookbook we're using for 
installing Dell OMSA on a fleet of Dell servers. I'd be happy to 
contribute it ...

On 11-12-01 03:04 AM, 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

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