[chef] Questions on chef server & VPC

[Ritesh Angural < >]

Ohai Chefs!

Just trying to get an idea of best practices or thoughts on using chef server with VPC.

Specifically I have two questions, but I would like to leave this open to any other suggestions

or "how we've done it" as well.

My questions:

1) Having the chef server itself in the VPC vs having it as a public EC2. Is this a good idea or bad idea?

2) When bootstrapping nodes into VPC via knife-e2, we need to attach elastic ip to the node first.

(See this post). What's the best way to do this, or how have you done it?

Thanks!

Ritesh