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

[John Martinez < >]

Every time you specify "-j" option. Also, as previously mentioned,
you'll need to clean up node and client on termination. I've written
my own shutdown script for this, and don't care if it's a reboot,
since the script to build up a node will recreate it on the server on
boot-up. We terminate more instances than reboot by A LOT due to
autoscale.

-john

On Dec 10, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Bridger Larson
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 wrote:

> 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
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> 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
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