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

[Peter Norton < >]

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> secgroup.save

Great, that may be what I was missing.

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

Those are placeholders in case I want to add them in the future, but I
understand that since that matches the default arguments they don't
need to be there.  If I get this into a state where it's worth
sharing, I may remove that or comment it out until it's needed so that
it doesn't confuse anyone.

-Peter

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis)
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 wrote:
> 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
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