[chef] Re: Re: Cloud Deployments

[Nick Peirson < >]

On 23/07/2012 15:16, Torben Knerr wrote:
> P.S.: from reading the wiki page it appeared to me as knife-ec2 would
> be tied to Chef Server usage. True?
> http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Launch+Cloud+Instances+with+Knife
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Torben 
> Knerr<
>  >
>   wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > do you have recommendations for a tool that can spin up new
> > chef-managed vm instances in AWS and provision them using Chef solo?
> >
> > My first thought was using the ec2-tools and knife-solo[1], but then I
> > was looking for a more "integrated" approach. For that mccloud[2] and
> > vagrant-aws[3] look appealing to me.
> >
> > Would you recoommend either of them or do you have suggestions for other 
> > tools?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Torben
> >
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/matschaffer/knife-solo
> > [2] https://github.com/jedi4ever/mccloud
> > [3] https://github.com/mlinderm/vagrant-aws
We're looking at the same thing at the moment and we've gone with AWS 
CloudFormation. There's a whitepaper on it from Amazon here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-examples/IntegratingAWSCloudFormationWithOpscodeChef.pdf

That's from this page:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-articles-and-tutorials/

Various templates are available here:
http://aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-templates/

That's not to say the tools you've mentioned won't work, but I've not 
used them.

Cheers
Nick