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

[Greg Symons < >]

Agreed. right_aws is also missing support for VPCs, so things like 
autojoining load balancers won't work in a VPC.

Greg

On 01/10/2013 10:23 AM, John E. Vincent (lusis) wrote:
> 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 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
> > Thanks Ben. Do you have any code for those? Or if anyone else does, a pull
> > request would be great :).
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 16:42, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > As requested:
> > http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2193 - Support for PIOPS
> > http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/COOK-2194 - Support for EBS Optimized
> > instances
> >
> > :)
> >
> > -ben
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Timberman 
> > <
> >  >
> >  wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 13:40, Ben Hartshorne 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 
> > <
> >  >
> >  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