custom ohai plugins for bonded interfaces

We use bonded interfaces on our production hardware.
But only on production hardware, staging and dev just use the ethX interfaces.
So we needed a way for chef to identify the public & private interfaces regardless of whether they are bonded or not.

To start with I pulled down the ohai cookbook and added a few scripts to the plugins directory.
Thats all there is.
The two plugins below identify the public and private interfaces as either being eth0 || bond0 & eth1 || bond1

private_interface.rb

 provides "private_interface"
cmd = '/sbin/ifconfig bond0'
system(cmd)
if $? == 0
  private_interface "bond0"
else
  private_interface "eth0"
end

public_interface.rb

provides "public_interface"
cmd = '/sbin/ifconfig bond1'
system(cmd)
if $? == 0
  public_interface "bond1"
else
  public_interface "eth1"
end

From the chef ui you can see that public_interface and private_interface are now listed on the top level for a node.

This allows me to specify in a template/recipe to use the public or private interface, ohai automatically discovers what the interface actually is.
Example from a recipe for ufw:

firewall_rule "http-internal" do
        port 8098
        action :allow
        interface node['private_interface']
        notifies :enable, "firewall[ufw]"
end