[chef] Re: Re: Re: still necessary to hint Ohai on EC2 VPC?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 9:13 AM, Paul MacDougall wrote:

> Is there an issue or PR for this on github? I'd like to follow it for 
> future reference.
>  
> TIA,
> --Paul

I don’t think there’s any open issues for this, you can poke through the old 
ticketing system (https://tickets.opscode.com/secure/Dashboard.jspa) to find 
the discussions for why things are the way they are now. Tl;dr, there isn’t a 
reliable way to tell if you’re on EC2 that doesn’t involve network calls 
(which could take a long while to time out depending on your network 
topology). Until Amazon does something about that, there’s nothing we can do 
in ohai.

--  
Daniel DeLeo