Managing Embedded Devices with Chef?

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Another list topic about it:

"Managed Nodes" in chef for network switched, PDUs

pxe_dust is intended for simple pxe booting and Chef client installation, not nearly as ambitious as some of the other tools out there (no BIOS management for example). There are additional features planned, but I plan on keeping the feature set fairly small and focused. Razor has recently gained Chef support thanks to Fletcher Nichol’s work, that’s another alternative. The original discussion of Managed Nodes was around using Chef to automate devices that could not install a Chef client on the…

And a blog post about crowbar, with broken links to old wiki.opscode.com inside:

Extending Chef’s reach: “Managed Nodes” for External Entities.

I would like to ping @coderanger in case he has a better source of information about managed nodes than my faulty memory.