[chef] Re: AWS CloudFormation Init and chef-client

["Michael F. Weinberg" < >]

Hey Michael,

You can use cfn-init to install the omnibus chef-client, copy the 
validation.pem from S3 (unless it's pre-baked in your ami), and write a 
client.rb config file and a first-run.json.

Then you just need a cfn command of 'chef-client -c <path to config> -j <path 
to first run>

AWS definitely has some example cfn code to do something like this.

--
Michael F. Weinberg | Director of Operations
http://heavywaterops.com ;| @heavywaterops

> On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:38 AM, Michael Lindsay 
> <
 >
>  wrote:
> 
> Hello All, 
> 
> I have ami's that I'm creating from chef scripts, and I would like them to 
> re-register themselves with my chef server on boot.  It looks as though it 
> ought to be a pretty straightforward thing, but I haven't seen any examples 
> out there.  All of the examples appear to assume a base image without 
> chef-client and all it's goodness.  So my question is, what is the minimum 
> required to have an instance spun up from an ami register and come under 
> control of chef server?  I'd like to stuff that into CloudFormation 
> UserData and speed up my deployments.
> 
> Thanks, again,
>  - Michael