[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Peoples' thoughts on Amazon AWS OpsWorks?

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

Interesting, I'm definitely curious to hear more about it. I do a lot of AMI-based bootstrapping of Chef and it would be very interesting if there was a more integrated solution where I could assign the role at say... boot time, or via autoscaling/etc.

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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:06 AM, John Martinez < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

We have a similar workflow, but using Hosted Chef. OpsWorks looks very interesting, but I'm not sure if it's a replacement for Jenkins+CFN+Chef the way we've set things up. I'll be playing more with it when it's available, that's for sure!

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On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Peter Norton < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

OpsWorks is so similar to what we ended up building for ourselves using cloudformation and chef-solo that I wish we'd waited.  We already have a practice of downloading a small tarball that chef-solo will use to download the appropriate bundle and run the roles we've defined there, including registering with a chef server.  This is really promising.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Christopher Brown < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Just to allay people's fears and maybe stem the tide of speculation, we've worked with Amazon off-and-on a few times and have some involvement with OpsWorks.

There will probably be more visible press soon, as we get closer to #ChefConf 2013 (http://chefconf.opscode.com/).  I'll make sure the press and marketing team shed some light on this.

Cheers,

Chris

From: JJ Asghar < " target="_blank"> >
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Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:33 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: Peoples' thoughts on Amazon AWS OpsWorks?

They had a twitter post about it.

No press release that I've seen yet :(

Best Regards,

JJ Asghar

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From: Denis Haskin < " target="_blank"> >
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Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:20 AM
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Subject: [chef] Peoples' thoughts on Amazon AWS OpsWorks?

"Since AWS OpsWorks uses Chef recipes, you can leverage hundreds of community-built configurations such as PostgreSQL, Nginx, and Solr."

https://aws.amazon.com/opsworks/

This is apparently based on Scalarium, from AWS' Peritor acquisition.  Interesting discussion at ycombinator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5243196

Haven't really dug into it yet.  Surprised nothing from OpsCode about it.

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