[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Managing an ec2 instance and security group together with chef?

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:20 PM, James 
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> Just want to point out that instead of working around all of these issues,
> you could simply use something other than security groups. This approach
> would be vendor agnostic, and allow you to transition off of EC2 if you ever
> need to.
>
> James
>

I was considering doing an EC2 security-group LWRP till I heard
rumblings of a firewall cookbook that managed not only iptables but
security groups and other forms of "firewall"ing.

For what it's worth, all this talk of jclouds and boto and shelling
out is confusing. Amazon has a perfectly good ruby AWS SDK. Fog
exists. You'll get +9000x greater flexibility doing it in an LWRP or
as a knife plugin than trying to add yet another tool to the mix.

Am I missing something here?