F5-Node-Initiator Chef Cookbook

Update: The cookbook I was talking about above is in the Chef Supermarket and will create a virtual server, pool, and add the current node to the pool. I'm just picking away at various options.

As compared to the recipe that originally spawned this thread this is done as a LWRP. So you'll have a wrapper cookbook that does something like

f5_vip "{node.chef_environment}-myapp" do
  address '1.2.3.4'
  pool "{node.chef_environment}-myapp"
end

f5_pool "{node.chef_environment}-myapp" do
  port '80'
end

And it'll create any missing items and add the host to the pool.