[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: chef with aws

[Rob Watkin < >]

Regarding RDS.

If you were to follow the 'chef wrapper' pattern then you would create a cookbook for setting up your DB server called say 'my_db_server'. This (private) cookbook could either include (wrap) the standard mysql cookbook or it could include the standard aws_rds cookbook. Thus you would hide the DB implementation from the rest of your infrastructure.

I think you could probably run, for example, the mysql cookbook in your Dev environment and the aws_rds in Live. You probable wouldn't want to do this unless perhaps you wanted to develop against an offline DB but this is just an example of what Chef can do.

On 3 December 2013 16:08, Nikhil Shah < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

So in that sense, would it be more beneficial to utilize opscode?

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Gross < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Nikhil,

When you provision and RDS machine, you do not get shell access to the server, so there is no way to have Chef set up the machine.  From your applications point of view, it is just a database accessible via the database port, there is no other access.

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gourav Shah < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Nikhil, 

I recommend using AWS  OpsWorks instead of CloudFormation. Besides Opsworks supports Chef recipes for deployment. So basically you provision AWS components and then use Chef recipes to do whatever you want on the ec2. 

Thanks

Gourav

Founder, Initcron

www.initcron.com

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Nikhil Shah < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hey Folks,

I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation, or a variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW, and possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS implementations? 

Thanks in advance.

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