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

[Clif Smith < >]

My use case isn't traditional as most of my instances run for hours and then are destroyed as their work is completed.  I started building from scratch upon each instance but ran into 2 problems, time to productivity and sw install/updates causing systems to hang due to an Amazon networking issue.  While we're not likely to incur the networking issue again (let's hope), we decided we also didn't want to be beholden to the resiliancy of apt repositories.  

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cjs

On Monday, November 14, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Brad Knowles wrote:

On Nov 14, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Clif Smith wrote:

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.

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.

Did I miss something?

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Brad Knowles < "> >

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