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Updating an Amazon EC2 EBS Boot AMI

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 [...]

Using the Official Opscode 0.8.x Gems to build EC2 AMI Chef Client and Server

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 [...]

Upstart Documentation Secret Hiding Place

To quote the Upstart home page:

is an event-based replacement for theĀ /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services duringboot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.

One would think that the best place to find the current documentation on Upstart would be its home page and/or the Upstart Wiki. But [...]

Creating an Amazon EC2 AMI for Opscode Chef 0.8

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 [...]