[chef] Re: Re: Amazon CloudFormation

[Adam Jacob < >]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Denis Haskin 
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> That was my sense, and that CF and Chef might be really powerful together...
> looking forward to the blog posts ;-)

We were in the beta - CF is very cool.  It ties together all
components of an AWS based infrastructure into a single call.  You
describe the mix of AMIs, machine sizes, load balancers, message
queues, notifications, monitoring, etc that you normally did by hand,
or scripted with something like fog or boto in a series of calls, and
handles treating that infrastructure like a single coherent entity.

You can use the template you pass to CF to pass the role data,
validation key, and chef server URL to your instances, and have them
auto-configure.  One call to fully built AWS infrastructure from
scratch. Very cool, and certainly not competitive with Chef (unless
you think knife ec2 * was competitive with the AWS console somehow.)

Best,
Adam

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