AWS AutoScale with SPOT instances and dynamic tagging
I was always fascinated by idea of fully automated infrastructures, where instances come and go according to particular factors like network traffic or load increase and you just observe this process form the distance allowing system to heal itself.
Now that these days we mostly deal with Cloud providers and their great APIs, …
Provision and Bootstrap AWS instances with Chef
This is continuation of the previous post called Provision with Chef – baby steps. Today we going to talk about the process of bootstrapping instances with Chef used by FastCompany
At this point I assume that you already got chef repo setup and wondering how you could use it to configure your fresh instances. …
Mastering chef-solo: deploy to target machines and automatic run on boot
This post will cover some basics behind chef-solo and the way I use it to configure machines.
With recent changes to attributes introduced in Chef 11 chef-solo became even more useful for small infrastructures and testing cookbooks with Vagrant.
What
As you probably already know chef can function in two modes:
- chef client and server ( one server many clients ) – …
Secure data bag items with chef solo
How to generate encrypted data bag item with knife and chef-solo
This post is mostly a memo to myself, because I often forget how to how to create encrypted data bag items..
Here is the deal. We know how to generate regular data bag items with knife: knife data bag create DATA_BAG_NAME DATA_BAG_ITEM ( for those who didn’t know ). …
Provision with Chef – baby steps (installation and initial configuration)
In the previous post I wrote about our pre-chef approach for instance bootstrapping.
Today I will explain the process of our migration to Chef. I’m sure that could be useful for someone down the road, who’s trying to travel on similar route. …