[chef] Knife-ec2 0.6.6 Release Candidate available for testing

[Adam Edwards < >]

Ohai Chefs. A knife-ec2 gem release is finally upon us just in time for Halloween and ready for you to try out. We’re planning a final release on 10/31. We’d love it if you could give it a try on your favorite scenarios and report any issues you find with a ticket in https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF.

 

To test, you’ll need to do the following rather than a gem install (skip to the end of the message if you’d like to know why):

 

gem install bundler # if it’s not already installed

git clone https://github.com/opscode/knife-ec2

cd knife-c2

bundle install

bundle exec knife ec2 server list -c path-to-your-knife-config

 

The list of issues addressed in this knife-ec2 0.6.6 release is given below:

 

KNIFE-387           knife ec2 server create should accept bootstrap proxy option

KNIFE-364           : "Can not find bootstrap definition for "

KNIFE-349           Propagate "secret" and "secret-file" values for use when bootstrapping a new EC2 instance

KNIFE-346           Fix deprecations and test on Ruby 2.0.0

KNIFE-345           Updated README and gemspec

KNIFE-342           Include AZ in output and colorize flavor column for easy reading.

KNIFE-328           Remove Gemfile.lock

KNIFE-327           Travis CI

KNIFE-321           knife-ec2 does not inform the user of the default us-east region

KNIFE-294           Use credential file to specify access/secret keys

KNIFE-290           fix tags output

KNIFE-284           Unable to bootstrap windows node using ssh

KNIFE-265           knife-ec2 master breaks the knife command

KNIFE-254           Error::ECONNRESET (Connection reset by peer) when knife ec2 server create on 3G connection

KNIFE-253           knife-ec2 should be able to delete instance based on chef node name

KNIFE-161           Integrate WinRM bootstrap to allow knife ec2 server create to bootstrap a Windows instance

KNIFE-160           Add support for EC2 Placement Groups when creating new instances

 

*Gem testing note: Due to https://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-4696, pre-release knife gems won’t be loaded by recent versions of Chef, hence the bundler workaround given above. The ticket lists additional workarounds. If your version of Chef is not affected by the bug (Chef 11.4.0 or earlier), you can test the release candidate through a normal gem install since we have published the gem at http://rubygems.org/gems/knife-ec2/versions/0.6.6.rc.0. CHEF-4696 has a fix that’s being tested for a future release of Chef.

 

Thank you everyone.

 

-Adam