[chef] Chef and CloudFormation

["Jeffrey E. Sussna" < >]

I have been critical of AWS' Cloudformation feature as suffering from the 
"worse than useless" syndrome. After initial deployment of a template, the 
moment you change either the template or the infrastructure, they are out of 
sync with each other, unless you manually sync the changes. CloudFormer 
improves things: you can effectively sync a changed environment by completely 
recreating the template from it (ugh). But there still is no elegant way to 
sync updates in either direction.

I raise the topic here because it seems a linkage between CloudFormation 
templates and Chef could be cool: a tool that could parse Cloud Formation 
template changes and drive Chef to instantiate those changes in the running 
environment. It would effectively create a declarative wrapper around Chef 
for Amazon environments.

Jeff

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Jeffrey E. Sussna, Principal
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