[chef] Re: Automatically starting a new EC2 instance with Chef

[Grig Gheorghiu < >]

Here's how I do it:

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2010/07/bootstrapping-ec2-instances-with-chef.html

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Edward Sargisson 
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 wrote:
> Hi all,
> What tools and services are available to automatically start a new EC2
> instance with Chef?
>
> My site has just one server and yesterday it failed. Unfortunately, I
> was at my day job and couldn't do anything about it. It's configured
> with Chef so starting up a new server with knife then using Opscode
> Platform to put the roles on was reasonably easy (it could be easier
> but I have some issues to fix).
>
> What I would like is for some service to realise that my server is
> down and then call Chef to setup a new one. Amazon Auto Scaling almost
> does this - the issue is that it merely starts an AMI and doesn't do
> anything cleverer than that. My Chef setup assumes a brand new Ubuntu
> image and goes from there. I suppose that, for future use, whatever
> solution I use needs to also listen to the CloudWatch metrics to scale
> up and down when required.
>
> So:
> Do I write an image which bootstraps chef automatically?
> Or is there some other way to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Edward
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