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

["John E. Vincent (lusis)" < >]

It might be worth considering moving to the official AWS ruby gem
instead of right_aws and waiting for it to support features?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Joshua Timberman 
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> Thanks Ben. Do you have any code for those? Or if anyone else does, a pull
> request would be great :).
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> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 16:42, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
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> yup, that's the one.  I didn't look in detail at the three open requests, so
> I'm glad to hear that they're being watched.
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> As requested:
> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2193 - Support for PIOPS
> http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2194 - Support for EBS Optimized
> instances
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> :)
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> -ben
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Timberman 
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> What cookbook are you referring to? Our Aws cookbook has three open pull
> requests. One was reviewed to be merged, one is a dupe that didn't have a
> CLA so a different one was merged and the third is a whitespace change but
> no ticket so we hadn't reviewed it yet.
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> If there are additional features that would benefit the community we'd love
> to have them. Please open a ticket if one isn't already opened for piops.
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> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 13:40, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
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> 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).
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> Maybe this is another candidate for the orphaned cookbooks list?  It's got
> three outstandand pull requests, the oldest being 8 months old.
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> -ben
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Julian C. Dunn 
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> Are people still using Opscode's AWS cookbook, or is there a better one to
> use?
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> 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]
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> - Julian
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> [1] http://forums.rightscale.com/showthread.php?t=909
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