yea I think this is ok you can also do this in attributes if you include_attribute the proper attribs files ahead of them. 

regarding moving things into environment I almost rather have them in cook for now, but with a per-env attribute file that checks and returns the environment. see: https://github.com/cloudware-cookbooks/ktc-utils/blob/develop/attributes/mkd_stag.rb  as an example. @wilreichert whats your thoughts ?


P.S. with the inclusion of the networks in the attribs/cookbook should we move this cook to a private repo ? @jbc0 thoughts ?