[chef] Re: Moving the servers from local datacenter to AWS EC2

[Daniel Condomitti < >]

Launch your instances with autoscaling groups or another orchestration layer and they can self-register with your Chef server using the config/validator from S3. 

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:25 PM, niristotle okram < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

hello everyone, 

I am starting to gather notes to move my servers from a local DC to AWS. Currently in-order to set the http & https proxies, we use a bootstrap template. Now that we are moving to the AWS, i assume we will not be requiring to set this proxies and hence the template can be left aside. 

The normal "knife ec2 server create"  bootstraps the node/instance. To install a specific version of chef-client, i think i should be able to pass the option : --bootstrap-version VERSION

( https://docs.chef.io/plugin_knife_ec2.html )

So apart from specifying a particular chef-client version to be installed, each time i bootstrap the servers so that they remain consistent across all nodes. is there any other reason that i should have a bootstrap template. 

I also came accross ths blog: http://awsadvent.tumblr.com/post/37773106407/bootstrap-cfg-mgmt-aws

why is it important to have the client.rb, validator.pem on the S3/anywhere when the same info can be passed from the knife config file itself.