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

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

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Peter Norton 
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 >
 wrote:
>
>     def run
>       $stdout.sync = true
>
>       secgroup_def = { :name => config[:name], :description =>
> config[:description], :ip_permissions => nil, :owner_id => nil }
>
>
>       conn = Fog::Compute.new(
>           :provider => 'AWS',
>           :aws_access_key_id => Chef::Config[:knife][:aws_access_key_id],
>           :aws_secret_access_key =>
> Chef::Config[:knife][:aws_secret_access_key],
>           :region => locate_config_value(:region)
>         )
>       # conn = connection.create()
>       secgroup = conn.security_groups.new(secgroup_def)
>

Works fine for me. The only thing I see you missing is a call to:

secgroup.save

You can also omit the :ip_permissions => nil, :owner_id => nil parts

> Does anyone know of a place I can look for an example of how to do
> this?  I don't want to spend much more time on this now, and I'm
> pretty sure I can do this in python+boto in about an hour, but I'd
> prefer to not have to write yet another tool.
>
> -Peter