I've written a blog post about my adventures setting up Chef on Solaris. This includes examples of several new LWRPs I've written for Solaris (pkgutil_package, zpool, zfs and zone) . If you are using Chef on Solaris (and even if you are not), this may be interesting for you. http://wix.io/2012/07/22/chef-on-solaris/ Martha Greenberg