- From: "John E. Vincent (lusis)" <
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- Subject: [chef] Re: Re: Re: Amazon CloudFormation
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:36:59 -0500
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Actually pretty much anything is better than the EC2 console.
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Adam Jacob
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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
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> looking forward to the blog posts ;-)
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We were in the beta - CF is very cool. It ties together all
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components of an AWS based infrastructure into a single call. You
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describe the mix of AMIs, machine sizes, load balancers, message
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queues, notifications, monitoring, etc that you normally did by hand,
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or scripted with something like fog or boto in a series of calls, and
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handles treating that infrastructure like a single coherent entity.
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You can use the template you pass to CF to pass the role data,
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validation key, and chef server URL to your instances, and have them
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auto-configure. One call to fully built AWS infrastructure from
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scratch. Very cool, and certainly not competitive with Chef (unless
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you think knife ec2 * was competitive with the AWS console somehow.)
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Best,
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Adam
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