[chef] Re: Launching Windows instances with chef-provisioning-aws

[George Miranda < >]

It looks like you might be getting the default AMI for whatever region you're in.[1]  For... reasons?

Try setting image_id as a machine option rather than a bootstrap option.

with_machine_options({

  :bootstrap_options => {
    :foo => "bar"
  },
  :image_id => "ami-73717d36"
})

[1] https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-aws/blob/master/lib/chef/provisioning/aws_driver/driver.rb#L270

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:31 PM, tayworm . < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

I'm attempting to launch a windows instance into vpc but for some reason it always picks ubuntu-trusty-14.04-amd64-server-20140816 (ami-73717d36) instead of the ami I specified with `:image_id => 'ami-xxxxxxxx'` in the bootstrap options. Any ideas on how to get my ami choice honored?