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

["Jeffrey E. Sussna" < >]

On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Edward Sargisson wrote:

>> Very nice. I presume that putting everything in the user data script is 
>> what makes ELB wait for the chef run to finish before it considers the 
>> instance in service?
> 
> No - the ELB is set with a grace period before it starts testing for
> up-ness. Mine's set for 12 minutes or something because a standard
> chef run for my config is about 10 minutes.
> However, for your requirements you probably don't need the ELB unless
> you particularly need load balancing in test.
> 

Has anyone from the chef community talked to the Amazon folks about more 
robust ways for ELB to decide that an instance is fully up?