[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bootstrapping a lot of nodes

[Ranjib Dey < >]

Ameir, so you are manually doing what knife bootstrap already does? or the reason is to pass this data via aws user data field? also how you spawn ec2 instances , because knife-ec2 can do what you are mentioning already (and more). 

on older versions you can pass -j /path/to/file.json where json file can contain runlist key (value is used as runlist item) , knife bootstrap uses the same trick to create a first-boot.json and invoke chef-client -j /etc/chef/first-boot.json

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