[chef] Re: Re: Re: aws and chef do not play nice

["Julian C. Dunn" < >]

Part of the issue is that we have not yet found a reliable way in Ohai
to detect whether a machine is running in EC2. Hence the hints file.
However, creating the hints file in recipe code is not sufficient to
populate node['ec2'] because by that point, Ohai has already run.

You can create the hints file *before* you run Chef in a number of
ways, one of which is that "knife ec2 server create" will take a
--hint parameter.

- Julian

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Jordan Dea-Mattson
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 wrote:
> The issue is, I believe, that at the time you execute this recipe that
> node['ec2']['instance_id'] is not defined. This is the cause of your failure
> due to 'undefined method'.
>
> This is a Ruby runtime exception and is not 'managed' by 'ignore_failure'.
>
> I previously encountered a similar issue. It was due to Ohai not setting the
> 'instance_id' appropriately on first run and was tied to a particular
> version of Ohai.  What version of Chef and version of Ohai are you using?
>
> The reason it executes successfully following your first run, is that Ohai
> is not properly setting the 'instance_id'.
>
> Yours,
>
> Jordan


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