[chef] RE: Re: Auto scaling with chef questions

[Bridger Larson < >]

Does the first-run.json only run once or is it every time you specify it with 
"-j"?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Hulten 
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Subject: [chef] Re: Auto scaling with chef questions

In autoscaling groups you set a launch config which can contain a 
first-run.json that you can include to the chef-client.

{ "run_list" : "role[my_service]" }

chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-run.json

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On Dec 7, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Cassiano Leal wrote:

> I had been thinking about the very same thing for a while, but haven't had 
> the time to run some tests.
> 
> My guess so far is that every new machine that spins up will run 
> chef-client, create a node and a client using the validator key and using 
> the ec2-****** FQDN as client/node name. Have you tried running 'hostname 
> -f' on an EC2 server?
> 
> --
> Cassiano Leal
> 
> On Friday, December 7, 2012 at 21:43, Bridger Larson wrote:
> 
>> The company I am working for is moving to AWS.  I want to be able to have 
>> Chef pre-installed on our application server AMI's so when they start up 
>> they will be configured correctly. 
>>  
>> If one AMI can create many servers, how does the Chef client give them 
>> different client names?
>> How does Chef know to remove them when the server is deleted?
>>  
>> Thanks!
>> Bridger Larson
>