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We are using puppet on solaris and linux at neuberger berman and extending our use of it all the time !

thanks

Hi

So far with Amazon EC2, I’ve been using shell scripts for loading profiles (manifests), with arguments which are passed in via the “user-data” field. The profiles are pretty easy to write, being simple bash scripts, and have access to all of the Amazon AWS features via the available command line tools, and a shared library of functions to do common things like mounting ebsvolumes or accessing S3. You can see what I’ve implemented so far, here http://www.practicalclouds.com

At the moment the process is only suited to small deployments and doesn’t allow for the kind of auditing, large scale deploys or flexibility of operating system that puppet supports. Searching for puppet support for EC2 returns many blogs and how-tos, but they don’t seem to delve into many of the EC2 features, such as support for Elastic Load Balancers, Elastic Block Storage, Simple DB, S3 etc.. etc.. Is there a comprehensive module out there, or do we need to continue to use the available command line tools via external command calls? I found the ‘aws’ tool from http://timkay.com/aws/ great for command line access to EC2 – is there a better way for puppet?

regards

Dave

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