Show Date: June 5, 2013

A round table discussion on using Chef with AWS and brief exploration of some of the many AWS services.

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Panel

• Brandon Burton github, twitter
• Bryan Berry github, twitter, irc: bryanwb, blog: devopsanywhere
• Kevin Nuckolls github, twitter
• Mike Fiedler github, twitter
• Nathen Harvey github, twitter, irc: nathenharvey, blog
• Trotter Cashion github, twitter, blog

Chef News

• Responsive infrastructure with Opscode Chef–an introduction an introduction to Chef from Sam Cooper at bluebox.
• Solomon Hykes Explains Docker a great article introducing Docker and a good companion for episode 49: Docker: The Linux Container Runtime
• Arrays and Chef Attributes - an article from Noah Kantrowitz that’s essential reading for anyone wondering about how arrays are merged in node attributes.

Outline

• Chef News
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
• Introductions
• Amazon AWS
• Getting started with Chef and AWS
• knife ec2
• Storage
• Amazon EC2
  • Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison
  • AWS EC2 Instance Properties
• Stateless and stateful servers
• Logical Volume Management (LVM)
• User-data and auto-scaling
  • S3 can be used as a source of artifacts in artifact-cookbook now (includes support for IAM roles)
• Running as a service
• AWS Cookbook
  • RightScale AWS gem
  • fog gem
  • AWS SDK for Ruby
• IAM roles
• snapshotting and drive consistency
• Servercreate
  • OHAI hint
• Amazon VPC (Virtual Private Cloud)
  • High Availability for Amazon VPC NAT Instances: An Example
• Amazon S3
• Run your own gem server
• varnish
• Application deployment to Amazon
• AMIs for Windows
• Reboots
• Amazon Route 53
  • blog post from Parse using Chef + Route53 to auto-add nodes to Route53
• Amazon RDS
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• Redshift
• Test Kitchen and AWS kitchen-ec2
• EC2 and Multiple Data Centers
• Availability zones within a region
• Regions
• LWRP for pulling stuff from S3
  • AWS SDK for Ruby
  • AWS CloudFormation
    • example of cloudformation and some user-data
    • AWS CloudFormation Sample Template
    • another cloud formation template
    • sample of stack deploy using quite a bit of different AWS features within cloudformation
    • CloudFormatter Generates JSON config for AWS CloudFormation using a Ruby DSL.

Other Resources

Here’s a list of things that were mentioned in the show or the IRC backchannel during the episode.

• Consolidated AWS prices and limits
• EBS Cookbook
• Chef Node Deregistration For Autoscaling Groups
• Gem in a Box and the geminabox cookbook.
• cloud dns abstractor
• AptProxy
• Strategies for re-usable CloudFormation Templates
• Bootstrapping Config Management on AWS
• Cookbooks to create bootable USB sticks that contain OS vendor ISO
• Vagrant Shell Provider

Picks

Nathen

• Chef and the Cloud - Trotter’s #ChefConf 2013 talk
• Velocity Conference - See you there!

Mike

• Good Omens
• “the sparse usage of ternary operators” (mikes_disposition = (used_sparingly?)? "happy" : "rage")

Bryan

• Pry, the good Parts and Pry.rescue do #…. end
• fog
• Hurting Code
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

Brandon

• imgur Technology Stack
• Docker 0.4.0

Trotter

• Mistborn Trilogy
• The Atlantic Ocean
• Ela

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