[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: knife-ec2 instance creation and management.

[Kevin Karwaski < >]

Does the public_hostname appear in the on-instance metadata? Is the
external hostname returned properly when you run this on your
instance?

curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:40 PM, James Andrews 
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 wrote:
> Also,  Looking at the AWS panel I have no assigned Elastic IPs, so it's not 
> a vpc server even though it says vpc_id   I believe that all regular ec2 
> instances run on an amazon owned vpc and not a customer configured vpc  if 
> that makes any sense.  Meaning  Amazon itself uses a non customer managed 
> vpc to manage non vpc instances.
>
> james
>
>
> On Jun 20, 2013, at 6:31 AM, Kevin Karwaski wrote:
>
>> It looks like EC2 instances launched in non-default VPCs do not
>> receive public addressing:
>>
>> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-vpc.html
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Kevin Karwaski 
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>>  wrote:
>>> I think the issue may be related to the use of a VPC. I believe you
>>> have to assign an EIP to an instance in a VPC to have a public
>>> resolvable CNAME associated with the instance.
>>>
>>> https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=102848
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:17 PM, James Andrews 
>>> <
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>>>  wrote:
>>>> I had added the ticks before, and got the same error.  What I was using 
>>>> was copied from the wiki article.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kevin Karwaski
>>> Operations Engineer @ {Fiksu}
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kevin Karwaski
>> Operations Engineer @ {Fiksu}
>



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Kevin Karwaski
Operations Engineer @ {Fiksu}