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

[niristotle okram < >]

If working on linux node, I would suggest setting up the ~/.ssh/config file first. This should take care of defined  ssh connections to the nodes. You will not require to specify the keys each time to ssh into the nodes. 

For windows, the git hub doc have this below entry 

# A Windows instance via the WinRM protocol -- --ssh-key is still required due to EC2 API operations that need it to grant access to the Windows instance
# `--spot-price` option lets you specify the spot pricing
knife ec2 server create -I ami-173d747e -G windows -f m1.medium --user-data ~/your-user-data-file -x '.\a_local_user' -P 'yourpassword' --ssh-key your-public-key-id --spot-price price-in-USD

So, put in your pub key id/name, that you will use in that reason. 

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Alex Neihaus < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Thank you!

I am almost there. Can someone shed light on the --ssh-key parameter? I'm passing a local copy of a .pem file that is  on AWS but knife is saying it cannot be found. 

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On Sep 24, 2015, at 14:58, Fabien Delpierre < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

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!

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Regards
nirish okram