Chef-provisioning - setting url-endpoint for the fog/AWS driver

StFS · April 9, 2015, 6:51pm

Hi.

We have a private cloud solution that has an EC2 compatable API. I’m trying to configure chef-provisioning to use that instead of AWS.

What I’m having problems with is where the configuration is supposed to go to set the endpoint-url for the EC2 API.

I have found the line in the code that does this:
https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-fog/blob/c8df0ed605dbb2cf80ddb7c384a79378d3b6d5ab/lib/chef/provisioning/fog_driver/providers/aws.rb#L225?

…but that seems to be using something called compute_options that I’m not sure where to put?

The configuration I currently have for configuring the Fog/AWS driver is this:

require ‘chef/provisioning/fog_driver/driver’

with_machine_options({
:bootstrap_options => {
:flavor_id => ‘t2.medium’,
},
:ssh_username => ‘centos’,
:image_id => ‘ami-96a818fe’
})

so I’m not sure where to put the “ec2_endpoint” configuration in order to point it towards our own EC2 API instead of Amazon.

I know this is a bit silly, but I’m just not quite getting the configuration syntax of chef. So sorry for the silly question :-/

-Kind regards,

Stefan Freyr

Christine_Draper · April 10, 2015, 2:46am

Hi,

This has some examples of setting compute_options:

github.com

chef-boneyard/chef-provisioning/blob/fa374c9c0a16ea1bdc3d0a9ab9b4b6402f6f9938/docs/configuration.md

# Configuring and using Provisioning drivers

Chef's `machine` resource has not changed, but the way you specify drivers has changed significantly. No longer are you encouraged to specify the driver name and credentials in the recipe (though it is still possible); instead, it is preferred to configure this information through Chef configuration files and the environment.

### Basic recipes

In a recipe, you use the `machine` and `machine_batch` resources to manipulate machines:

```ruby
machine 'webserver' do
  recipe 'apache'
end
```

You'll notice you don't specify where the machine should be or what OS it should have.  This configuration happens in the environment, configuration files or in recipes, described below.

(There are many things you can do with the `machine` resource, but we'll cover that in another post.)

## Installing drivers

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So think you would do:

with_driver 'fog:AWS', :compute_options => { :ec2_endpoint =>
'your_endpoint' }

But I haven't tested this.

Regards,
Christine Draper

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Stefán Freyr Stefánsson <
stefan@wuxinextcode.com> wrote:

Hi.

We have a private cloud solution that has an EC2 compatable API. I'm
trying to configure chef-provisioning to use that instead of AWS.

What I'm having problems with is where the configuration is supposed to
go to set the endpoint-url for the EC2 API.

I have found the line in the code that does this:

https://github.com/chef/chef-provisioning-fog/blob/c8df0ed605dbb2cf80ddb7c384a79378d3b6d5ab/lib/chef/provisioning/fog_driver/providers/aws.rb#L225

...but that seems to be using something called compute_options that I'm
not sure where to put?

The configuration I currently have for configuring the Fog/AWS driver is
this:

require 'chef/provisioning/fog_driver/driver'

with_machine_options({
:bootstrap_options => {
:flavor_id => 't2.medium',
},
:ssh_username => 'centos',
:image_id => 'ami-96a818fe'
})

so I'm not sure where to put the "ec2_endpoint" configuration in order
to point it towards our own EC2 API instead of Amazon.

I know this is a bit silly, but I'm just not quite getting the
configuration syntax of chef. So sorry for the silly question :-/

-Kind regards,

Stefan Freyr

StFS · April 10, 2015, 10:27am

Hi Christine and thanks for your answers to both my questions.

Not sure how I managed to miss that example you reference but that looks like it’s exactly what I need.

-Stefan

From: Christine Draper christine_draper@thirdwaveinsights.com
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:46 AM
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Subject: [chef] Re: chef-provisioning - setting url-endpoint for the fog/AWS driver.

Hi,