[[chef-dev]] Re: [[chef-dev]] Knife ec2 instance creation

[Noah Kantrowitz < >]

Are you saying you are trying to prompt for interactive input in a Chef 
recipe? That somewhat defeats the point of automation :-) If you want to 
provide varying parameters you should probably set them up as node attributes 
either on the node itself or better yet in roles.

--Noah

On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:30 PM, 
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 wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> I am trying to create an instance using Ec2 instance and also want to give
> inputs (through cookbook) using ruby gets.chomp.
> 
> Ec2 instance created and cookbooks uploaded n the client . its not allowing 
> me
> to give input through cookbook.
> 
> Is there any way can i give user inputs through cookbook from chef server?