You might be interested in the Openstack deployment tooling called 'tripleo'[1] which has similar questions and has avoided all the current config management to

You might be interested in the Openstack deployment tooling called 'tripleo'[1] which has similar questions and has avoided all the current config management tools. The general gist is that what you're describing can be done using tools like Cloudformation/Heat or the newly minted Terraform, since they can both orchestrate the hardware/cloud resources and pass data in/out of the guests. [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO