[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife ec2 plugin - losing my mind....

[Kevin Nuckolls < >]

Chiming in with another data point. I've used the knife ec2 plugin for a year and a half and it's never given me any problems. If it's an intermittent problem it's likely that the ec2 endpoints are timing out on you, or that the version of the fog gem that underlies the knife-ec2 plugin has a brand new bug in it.

If it's the ec2 endpoint timing out on you, then the ec2 command line tools won't work. If it's fog, then they will. You can test fog in IRB, or just see if it's had a recent release and downgrade it via your Gemfile.

My two cents, hope that helps.

-Kevin

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Maven User < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Nope, moments before and after the same script works just fine, so no
user errors.

It's totally random so it's really hard to reproduce...

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Ranjib Dey < "> > wrote:
> im using the plugin both with and without VPC, and without any trouble.
> Certain stuff dont work in vpc mode (like security groups can not be
> referred by name etc). Are you recently getting these errors? or you are
> just trying them afresh? From your error it looks like a fog related issue.
> Can you share the full stack trace with -VV ?
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Eric Dennis < "> > wrote:
>>
>> Knife-ec2 and fog use the same EC2 API end points that the Amazon-provided
>> EC2 tools use, so there's a chance that the latter will fail as well. I
>> second the idea of testing provisioning manually and bootstrapping, at least
>> if you are in a bind.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Maven User < "> > wrote:
>>>
>>> I've spent weeks building up this process around the knife plugin and
>>> tonight for whatever reason, things have gotten uber flaky.
>>>
>>> I think I'm going to have to redo all of this using the EC2 tools.....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Mike < "> > wrote:
>>> > You can also use EC2 API tools to launch instances and then use knife
>>> > bootstrap.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Maven User wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> time out and/or retry.
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone else?
>>> >>
>>> >> Is there an alternative to the ec2 plugin and/or fog?
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Mike < "> > wrote:
>>> >> > Having the same recently, even without VPC.
>>> >> > Might be a Fog timeout.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Maven User wrote:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Is anyone using this with any success?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I'm struggling to get this to work with any regularity with a vpc.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I keep getting these messages:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Waiting for server...ERROR: Fog::Errors::Error: Reload failed,
>>> >> >> Fog::Compute::AWS::Server <instance id here> went away
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Any suggestions? Totally at an end with this thing....
>>
>>
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