[chef] Re: Newbie needs help creating AWS EC2 Windows instance

[Fabien Delpierre < >]

Hi Alex,

Yes, knife ec2 server create is where you want to start.

There's a serviceable, if minimal (and possibly insufficient for your use) example of a command at https://github.com/chef/knife-ec2:

$ knife ec2 server create -r 'role[webserver]' -I ami-7000f019 -f m1.small -A 'Your AWS Access Key ID' -K "Your AWS Secret Access Key"

The -r flag sets the Chef run list and I think the other ones are self-explanatory.

You should run the following command to get a list of all the flags:
$ knife ec2 server create -h

The one command above will accomplish two things:

1. Create an AWS EC2 instance matching the specified settings

2. Once AWS is done baking the EC2 instance, it will then be bootstrapped with chef-client, registered to your Chef server, and a first chef-client run will occur.

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Alex Neihaus < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hello,

Total Chef newbie.

I am trying to spin up a Windows Server instance using knife ec2. I'm stuck conceptually on how to accomplish this using knife. Should I try knife ec2 server create? If so, can someone please help with a command I can pattern from? (The knife ec2 doc is, ahem, a little sparse).

Thanks!