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

[Hector Castro < >]

@Kevin – I think the main opposition to using Fog for the AWS cookbook
is the number of gem dependencies it introduces.  Your point about
Eucalyptus interoperability is certainly valid – not sure how well the
Ruby AWS SDK handles this.

--
Hector


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Kevin Nuckolls
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 wrote:
> I have one data point that may be of use. We use eucalyptus internally,
> which is intended to be API compatible with AWS. It works exceedingly well.
> The only thing we've had any trouble with is swapping these gems to point to
> eucalyptus instead. The newest versions of the fog gem have made this very
> simple, and it's what we've built our aws cookbook, tooling, etc around.
>
> I think it's likely best to keep in mind that these tools will be used with
> Eucalyptus too. The more they interop, the better.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Hector Castro 
> <
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>  wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Hector
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mike 
>> <
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>>  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 
>>> <
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>>> 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
>>> >> <
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>>> >> 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 
>>> >>> <
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>>> >>> 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 
>>> >>> <
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>>> >>> 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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