[chef] Re: AWS CloudFormation + Chef

[Gourav Shah < >]

Michael,

The correct workflow here would be to use CloudFormation to launch Chef Server/chef-solo to bootstrap with a role. 

The other way around is not possible to do with knife as per my knowledge, and I would be glad to be proven wrong here.  Knife has a ec2 plugin which lets you create instances etc, but not call cloudformation api directly. 

What is possible though it calling Cloudformation API directly from the role you create http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/cloudformation/

Thanks

Gourav

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On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Michael Leikind < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

... Assuming there should be a Chef helper to interact with AWS CloudFormation API