[chef] Re: Re: what cookbook are people using to interact with AWS these days?

[Hector Castro < >]

I have a fork of the AWS cookbook with PIOPS support – unfortunately, it contains a .gem snapshot of `right_aws` version 4.5 (built from a branch in GitHub repository):

   https://github.com/hectcastro/aws/tree/provisioned-iops

The corresponding open ticket in Jira:

   http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-1595

At this point, the real solution may be to update the AWS cookbook so that it uses the `aws-sdk` gem.

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Hector

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Ben Hartshorne < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

We use the opscode AWS cookbook and added some piops stuff, but haven't upstreamed the changes.  (bad devops, bad!)  We're also using an older version of the aws cookbook, so our changes can't even apply to the current version, making it harder to upstream.  I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer, but yes, at least, we are using the opscode cookbook (and wish it would handle piops on its own).

Maybe this is another candidate for the orphaned cookbooks list?  It's got three outstandand pull requests, the oldest being 8 months old.

-ben

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Julian C. Dunn < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Are people still using Opscode's AWS cookbook, or is there a better one to use?

I'm looking to automate the creation of provisioned IOPS volumes and that cookbook doesn't seem to do that. Additionally it seems to use an old version of the right_aws Gem (and I'm not even sure if Rightscale is still officially maintaining that). [1]

- Julian

[1] http://forums.rightscale.com/showthread.php?t=909