[chef] Re: examples of mounting and RAIDing EBS volumes with chef?

[Joshua Timberman < >]

Ebs wasn't used in the velocity demo repository.

I was going through tickets in the COOK project earlier tonight and
found this gist, which may be helpful.

https://gist.github.com/943645


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:39 PM,  
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 wrote:
>
> hi. does anyone have any examples of using chef to mount and RAID EBS
> volumes in ec2?  i'm just getting started trying to do this, and could
> use some examples as guides.
>
> some of the particulars of my environment:
>
> we have many databases (mysql) in ec2. some use EBS as mysql datastore,
> some use ephemeral drives. both are RAIDed.
>
> when we launch a database, we supply via userdata a list of
> already-established volumes to attach and assemble as RAID10. once that
> RAID10 EBS volume is assembled and mounted, mysql is started.
>
>
> i'm poking around in velocity2011-chef-repo, but i don't see EBS
> directly used.
>
> i have various hand-wavy questions like:
>
> * how should i arrange instance-to-volume mappings?
> ** continue supplying it via userdata at launch time?
> ** toss it into data bags?
> ** toss it into an attributes file?
>
>
> in velocity2011-chef-repo's recipe[database::ebs_volume] i notice it's
> grabbing AWS secrets from a data bag. i'd assume that data bag was
> encrypted (but i haven't played enough yet with encrypted data bags).
> then i ask myself, can i use the database cookbook out of the box and
> supply AWS creds via environment variables or in my knife.rb file?
>
> LOTS of questions. i could use some examples to get me going..
>
> thanks y'all,
> kallen
>
>



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