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

[E Camden Fisher < >]

Hi Nirish -

There's some good documentation for getting started with AWS
autoscaling here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStartedTutorial.html

We are using packer (http://packer.io) to build an AMI that's (almost)
ready to bootstrap on it's own, then we deploy/bootstrap using
terraform (http://terraform.io) and that has been working out pretty
well for us.  We do not currently use autoscaling groups, although I
expect we will need them sooner than later.

Cheers,
-Camden

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, niristotle okram
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> hey Dan, i am just starting on AWS. Could you point me to a doc or 
> something for "Launch your instances with autoscaling groups or another 
> orchestration layer"
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Daniel Condomitti 
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>> 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.
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>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:25 PM, niristotle okram 
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>>> 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.
>>>
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>>>
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