Is there interest in maintaining chef cookbooks for ROS?
Chef is my tool of choice for configuration management. It's pretty easy-to-use, has strong community and solid integration with VMs and clouds. I'd like to use it to provision all my ROS-based development VMs and physical nodes.
I found a couple uses of it with ROS:
(sorry, not enough karma to publish links properly)
Both seem to be parts of personal/project setups that could be refactored/extracted into standalone cookbooks.
What would chef be good for? Building fully-configured systems that are ready to run:
- building VMs with ROS: ready to run, do development, run tests
- makes CI configuration easy
- pulling 3rd party dependencies (bag files, models, etc) that project-specific and aren't part of an install
- building boxes in the cloud with ROS
Q1: Is there interest?
Q2: Am I missing other existing examples?
Q3: What do people use right now?
Thanks a lot!