Hey Folks,
I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation, or a
variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW, and
possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is
something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use
something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the
Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS
implementations?
Thanks in advance.
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Nikhil,
I recommend using AWS OpsWorks instead of CloudFormation. Besides Opsworks
supports Chef recipes for deployment. So basically you provision AWS
components and then use Chef recipes to do whatever you want on the ec2.
Thanks
Gourav
Founder, Initcron
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:
Hey Folks,
I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation, or a
variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW, and
possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is
something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use
something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the
Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS
implementations?
Thanks in advance.
--
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Nikhil,
When you provision and RDS machine, you do not get shell access to the
server, so there is no way to have Chef set up the machine. From your
applications point of view, it is just a database accessible via the
database port, there is no other access.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gourav Shah gs@initcron.org wrote:
Nikhil,
I recommend using AWS OpsWorks instead of CloudFormation. Besides
Opsworks supports Chef recipes for deployment. So basically you provision
AWS components and then use Chef recipes to do whatever you want on the
ec2.
Thanks
Gourav
Founder, Initcron
www.initcron.com
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:
Hey Folks,
I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation, or
a variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW, and
possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is
something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use
something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the
Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS
implementations?
Thanks in advance.
--
- Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com
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So in that sense, would it be more beneficial to utilize opscode?
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Gross andrew@yipit.com wrote:
Nikhil,
When you provision and RDS machine, you do not get shell access to the
server, so there is no way to have Chef set up the machine. From your
applications point of view, it is just a database accessible via the
database port, there is no other access.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gourav Shah gs@initcron.org wrote:
Nikhil,
I recommend using AWS OpsWorks instead of CloudFormation. Besides
Opsworks supports Chef recipes for deployment. So basically you provision
AWS components and then use Chef recipes to do whatever you want on the
ec2.
Thanks
Gourav
Founder, Initcron
www.initcron.com
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:
Hey Folks,
I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation, or
a variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW, and
possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is
something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use
something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the
Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS
implementations?
Thanks in advance.
--
- Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com
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t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203
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Regarding RDS.
If you were to follow the 'chef wrapper' pattern then you would create a
cookbook for setting up your DB server called say 'my_db_server'. This
(private) cookbook could either include (wrap) the standard mysql cookbook
or it could include the standard aws_rds cookbook. Thus you would hide the
DB implementation from the rest of your infrastructure.
I think you could probably run, for example, the mysql cookbook in your Dev
environment and the aws_rds in Live. You probable wouldn't want to do this
unless perhaps you wanted to develop against an offline DB but this is just
an example of what Chef can do.
On 3 December 2013 16:08, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.com wrote:
So in that sense, would it be more beneficial to utilize opscode?
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Gross andrew@yipit.com wrote:
Nikhil,
When you provision and RDS machine, you do not get shell access to the
server, so there is no way to have Chef set up the machine. From your
applications point of view, it is just a database accessible via the
database port, there is no other access.
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Gourav Shah gs@initcron.org wrote:
Nikhil,
I recommend using AWS OpsWorks instead of CloudFormation. Besides
Opsworks supports Chef recipes for deployment. So basically you provision
AWS components and then use Chef recipes to do whatever you want on the
ec2.
Thanks
Gourav
Founder, Initcron
www.initcron.com
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Nikhil Shah nshah@theorchard.comwrote:
Hey Folks,
I was wondering which approach to take (chef,opscode,cloud formation,
or a variation). I am trying to build a stack utilizing RDS, VPC/EC2/, FW,
and possibly setting up raids on the volume. I was wondering if this is
something I can utilize chef with or would it be more beneficial to use
something like opscode or cloud formations since it all resides in the
Amazon infrastructure. With that said, does chef even support RDS
implementations?
Thanks in advance.
--
- Nikhil Shah */ System Administrator
nshah@theorchard.com
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t (+1) 212.308.5648 / f (+1) 212.201.9203
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