[chef] Re: Re: Handling ec2 terminated hosts

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Very nice, Alex!

I have a very crude blunt instrument that runs "knife {node,client,ec2 
server} delete" on an instance ID. I think I like your's for practical use 
better :-).


On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:22 PM, Alex Soto wrote:

> Basically that's what I do.  Here's my version.  Would love to know if 
> anyone has any improvements:
> 
> https://gist.github.com/1194158
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Haim Ashkenazi wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> I was wondering if there are best practices for handling terminated 
>> instances on ec2. When an instance dies unexpectedly it's still registered 
>> with chef server. Currently I'm running a script that lists all registered 
>> instances and all running ec2 instances and compares them. Although it's 
>> working, I was wondering if there are better ways to handle this.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance
>> -- 
>> Haim
> 

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