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

[Hector Castro < >]

For the record, it appears that RightScale is actually keeping up with AWS feature additions – they just aren't cutting new versions of the gem.  This is why I had to take a snapshot of their GitHub repository and create a .gem from that.

All of that said, I agree that moving to the official AWS Ruby SDK is the best long-term solution.

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Hector

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mike < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

What say you, Joshua/Opscode? Would taking a stab at replacing the
right_aws gem with the AWS-supported one be something you'd consider?

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:54 AM, Greg Symons < "> > wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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