[chef] Re: Re: Re: Creating Amazon AMI's from Running Instances

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

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Brad Knowles 
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> On Nov 14, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Clif Smith wrote:
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>> I use a multi-pronged approach to this.  I have a image (Amazon AMI) with 
>> only the changes being the installation of the Omnibus client and the 
>> validation.pem.
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> I'm confused.  I was under the impression that burning your own AMIs for 
> use with Chef was considered to be one of the worst possible anti-patterns.
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> Did I miss something?
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> Brad Knowles 
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It's a bit of an eternal debate. I'm a fan of JEOS myself but after a
while you get serious drift in system packages. Eventually boostraps
take longer and longer.

I've been considering rolling a new AMI with ruby and chef-client
baked in for a while now just to speed up new instance creation.