[chef] recipe for front-end http proxy that "finds" back-end servers that need proxying via chef-search

[Bryan Berry < >]

I will be setting up two front-end http proxies that expose 30+ back-end servers. I would really like to do something like the following

# recipe for front-end server

backends = search(:node, "proxy_me")

backends.each do |b|

   http_proxy  b.name do

       port         b.port

       protocol   b.protocol

       vhost       b.vhost

   end

end

Has anyone done something like that with either nginx or apache?