By Robert J Berger, on March 4th, 2010
Introduction
Well there is already an update to Chef’s Ohai library. At first I thought, “Oh no, I have to generate another EC2 image”. But then I remember reading that you can update and clone a running EBS boot image.
One of the cool features of using an Amazon EC2 instance that boots from an EBS Snapshot [...]
By Robert J Berger, on March 2nd, 2010
Updates
Mar 3, 2010 Added call to script ec2-set-defaults that is normally called on ec2 init that sets the locale and apt sources for EC availability Zone
Introduction
Opscode has officially released 0.8.x of Chef. It is now even more fabulous. I’ve been using the pre-release version for the last couple of months and it is rock steady [...]
By Robert J Berger, on January 12th, 2010
Changes Since Original
1/13/10: Fix various minor inaccuracies and improved description on how to set up the chef-server. Also removed nanite as a requirement (its no longer used)
1/17/10: Add the requirement to build and install mixlib-authentication for the chef-client
1/21/10: Added a mkdir for /var/log/chef
1/22/10: Added step to insure that /tmp permissions are set
Introduction
Here’s my experience setting [...]
By Robert J Berger, on September 4th, 2009
NOTE (Sep 7 2009): Updated info on need to use Amazon Private DNS Names and clarified the need for the masters, slaves and regionservers files. Also updated to use HBase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 3
Introduction
As someone who has “skipped” Java and wants to learn as little as possible about it, and as one who has not [...]